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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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