| 单词 | committee of safety |
| 释义 | > as lemmasCommittee of Safety Committee of Safety n. now historical any of various official committees set up to oversee security in a time of war or instability; spec. (a) English History any of several committees set up in times of emergency by Parliament or Parliamentarian forces during the English Civil War and Interregnum; (b) U.S. History any of various committees established in the American colonies as an alternative to colonial authorities during the American Revolution. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of body or spec. bodies > [noun] > committee > other types of committee committee1571 council of war1590 special committee1606 standing committeea1632 Committee of Safety1642 working party1744 finance committee1783 Board (also Court) of county commissioners1806 business committee1825 national committee1826 watch committee1835 working group1888 Central Committee1917 action committee1918 action group1927 ombuds-committee1964 PESC1969 1642 R. L'Estrange Relaps'd Apostate Note X. 28 This Mustering up of Multitudes, is an old Trick they learn'd from the Committee of Safety. 1661 J. Davies Civil Warres 373 This utterly dissipated the power of the new sprung Committee of Safety. a1683 P. Warwick Mem. Reign Charles I (1701) 408 And now the Men of the Armyes party raise a Committee of Safety of twenty three persons, to execute all the powers of the late Council of State. 1704 in C. J. Hoadly Public Rec. Colony of Connecticut (1868) IV. 462 They or any three of them convened to have full power to act in all affairs proper for a committee of safetie in their countie. 1741 Hist. Ess. Londoners in Publick Affairs 44 All Power being vested in the Commons; and thence retrusted necessarily to a few of them (a Committee of Safety). 1775 Extracts Jrnl. Proc. Provinc. Congr. New-Jersey 29 All officers above the rank of a captain..be appointed by the Congress, or during, their recess, by the committee of safety. 1775 Extracts Jrnl. Proc. Provinc. Congr. New-Jersey 41 That it be recommended to each colony, to appoint a committee of safety, to superintend and direct all matters necessary for..security and defence. 1799 Votes House of Assembly Jamaica, 6th Session 59 Ordered, That the evidence taken before the secret committee of safety, and laid before the house during the last session, be printed. 1849 R. Bell Memorials Civil War II. 3 The Parliamentary Committee of Safety is re-empowered. 1896 H. A. Cushing Hist. Transition Provinc. to Commonw. Govt. Mass. v. §3. 139 Provision was made for the transaction of a part of the administrative business devolving on the Congress, by the appointment of a Committee of Safety. 1911 S. J. M. Low & F. S. Pulling Dict. Eng. Hist. 689/2 Parliament entrusted the conduct of the war to a Committee of Safety of ten commoners and five lords sitting at Derby House. 1995 M. Mendle Henry Parker & Eng. Civil War (2002) i. 19 A council of state for war and foreign policy..bears an uncanny likeness to the Committee of Safety of the early war years. 2011 H. M. Ward For Virginia & for Independence xxvii. 166 In July 1775 Davies was named secretary of the Norfolk Committee of Safety. < as lemmas |
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