单词 | club-law |
释义 | club-lawn. 1. The use of the club to enforce obedience; physical force as contrasted with argument; law or rule of the physically stronger. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > violent treatment or force strong handOE strengthOE strenghc1300 violencec1300 mightc1325 stuntisea1327 forcea1340 enforcing138. forcinga1382 forcenessc1400 violation?c1500 efforce1549 enforcement1577 Stafford law1589 vexation1605 club-law1612 aspertee1660 physical force1716 strong arm1836 savaging1858 muscle1879 strong-arming1906 1597–8 in Macray Parnassus Pref. 6 He had already been satirized in Club-Law, a play acted at Clare Hall in 1597–8.] 1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus (i. 7) 146 The castle is not wonne by fists or clublaw. 1675 J. Smith Christian Relig. Appeal ii. 15 The Herculean Argument of Club-Law [We may because we can]. 1741 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses II. 247 The first bringing in of Club-Law into Religion. 1829 C. Welch Wesl. Polity 9 Argumenta ad baculum, vulgarly termed club-law. 1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (rev. ed.) II. xxiv. 114 Club-law, he argued with the minister, may make hypocrites, it can never make converts. 2. The body of rules by which a club is regulated. 3. Cards. A rule sometimes adopted in the game of loo n.1: see quot. 1863. ΚΠ 1863 G. F. Pardon Hoyle's Games Modernized 157 Sometimes the rule of club-law is introduced [at three card loo], when all must play when a club happens to be turned up [for trumps]. 1875 ‘Cavendish’ Round Games at Cards 4. Derivatives club-lawyer n. one who applies physical force. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > violent treatment or force > person cut-throat1535 club-fist1575 violator1583 club-lawyera1670 thug1838 outrager1840 messer1942 a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 191 These club-lawyers filled the whole land with blood and burning. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1612 |
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