declarationn.

/dɛkləˈreɪʃən/

Forms: Also Middle English -acioun, Middle English–1500s -acion.

Etymology: < French déclaration or < Latin dēclārātiōn-em , noun of action < dēclārāre to declare v.

†1. The action of making clear or clearing up (anything obscure or not understood); elucidation, explanation, interpretation. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [noun]

keyeOE

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clearingc1380

expoundingc1380

explanationa1382

interpretation1382

exploitingc1390

unfolding1483

explicating1531

explication1537

clearance?1548

elucidation1570

explaining1576

manifestation1576

untwining1577

illustration1581

untwisting1591

eviscerating1599

unclouding1601

enodation1603

opening1611

dilucidation1615

unsnarling1640

declarement1646

enucleation1650

illumination1656

dilucidatinga1660

luciferousness1665

clarifying1677

unravelling1713

disentanglement1751

exegesis1770

disambiguation1827

evisceration1831

keyword1848

clarificationa1866

exponence1880

exponency1880

straightening1900

demystification1964

c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) iii. x. 71–2 Thyse geometryens whan they han shewyd hyr proposiciouns ben wont to bryngen in thinges þat they clepyn porysmes or declaraciouns of forseyde thinges.

c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) i. §3. 4 For the more decl [a] racioun [MS decleracioun], lo here the figure.

a1527 R. Thorne in R. Hakluyt Divers Voy. (1582) sig. C^v For more declaration of the said card [= map].

1532–3 Act 24 Hen. VIII c. 5 For the declaracion of the whiche ambyguitee and doubte.

1656 H. Phillippes Purchasers Pattern (1676) 57 This Table is so plain, that it needs no declaration.

†2. The setting forth or expounding of a topic; exposition, description, relation. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [noun]

descrivingc1325

declaration1382

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devisementc1400

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presentmentc1454

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presentation1597

representationa1602

diction1604

characterism1608

deciphera1670

characterization1801

redescription1839

descriptivism1935

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Deut. xvii. 18 He shal discriue..a declaracioun of this lawe [L. deuteronomium legis hujus] in a volym.

a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 18 Þe childirn of Noe..of whos issew here schal be a declaracioun.

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 95 A description or an evident declaration of a thyng as though we sawe it even now doen.

1619 Mirr. Mag. (title page) With a Declaration of all the Warres, Battels and Sea-fights, during her Reigne.

1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. v. §437. 189 Of Dower ad ostium ecclesiæ, a good declaration hath beene made by Master Littleton in his first booke.

a. The action of stating, telling, setting forth, or announcing openly, explicitly or formally; positive statement or assertion; an assertion, announcement or proclamation in emphatic, solemn, or legal terms.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > [noun]

declaration1340

propositionc1390

presentmentc1454

unsecretness1526

advancement1532

representation1553

upgiving1574

pronouncement1593

presentation1597

proposal1597

declarement1633

pronounce1641

enunciation1651

declaring1667

advance1699

declarature1729

statement1776

stating1780

constatation1952

1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 2606 Þan sal he deme ilka nacyon, And mak a fynal declaracyon Of alle þe domes byfor shewed.

1426 in Surtees Misc. (1890) 9 Apon þis declaracion made.

1547 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. iii. 161 Crosses to be sett vpon mens dores for the declaracion of the plage.

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. ii. 51 His promises are nothing else but declarations what God will do for the good of men.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxi. 114 If he dye..without declaration of his Heyre.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 152. ⁋3 Declarations of fidelity.

1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility I. ix. 95 In spite of Marianne's declaration that the day would be lastingly fair.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. iii. 262 The pope made a public declaration with respect to the dispute.

1881 W. Bagehot Biogr. Stud. 290 The first declaration of love was made by the lady.

b. spec. A declaration of love; a proposal of marriage.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > proposal of marriage > [noun]

offer1548

proposal1657

declaration1740

the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [noun] > act of courtship > love proposal or declaration

assault1600

declaration1740

1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxxi. 192 I am glad at my Heart, Madam, that I was before-hand in my Declarations to you.

1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxxi. 193 What Necessity was there for you to talk of your former Declaration?

1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xvi. 163 My wife undertook to sound him..in the choice of an husband for her eldest daughter. If this was not found sufficient to induce him to a declaration, it was then fixed upon to terrify him with a rival.

1850 C. Dickens David Copperfield xxxiii. 344 I went to Miss Mills's, fraught with a declaration.

1937 ‘E. M. Delafield’ Ladies & Gentlemen in Victorian Fiction iii. 89 The Victorian papa..was by no means invariably consulted before a ‘declaration’ took place.

a. declaration of war: formal announcement or proclamation by a Power of the commencement of hostilities against another Power. Also declaration of peace.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > war > [noun] > declaration of war

declaration of wara1387

intimation1548

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 243 When þe Romaynes wolde werry in eny lond, schulde oon goo..and clereliche declare..þe matire and cause of the werre, and þat declaracioun was i-cleped clarigatio.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccvii She was sent..with a plain ouerture and declaracion of peace.

1762 Universal Mag. Feb. 99 The following is a Declaration of War by Spain against Great Britain dated the 16th of January.

1803 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 389 Declarations of war and peace, when presented by the executive to the legislative body, are to be adopted [etc.].

1828 W. F. Napier Hist. War Peninsula I. 137 The invasion of Napoleon produced a friendly alliance between those countries without a declaration of peace.

1845 A. Polson in Encycl. Metrop. 728/1 The custom of making a declaration of war to the enemy, previous to the commencement of hostilities, is of great antiquity, and was practised even by the Romans..Since, however, the peace of Versailles, in 1763, such declarations have been discontinued, and the present usage is, for the state with whom the war commences to publish a manifesto within its own territories.

b. declaration of the poll: the public official announcement of the numbers polled for each candidate at an election. Hence attributive in declaration day.

ΚΠ

1835 C. Dickens Let. 18 Dec. (1965) I. 109 It will be unnecessary for me to remain here for the Declaration of the Poll on Monday.

1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. i. viii. 114 Upon the closing of the poll, the poll-books are sealed, and kept under seal until the declaration of the poll.

1892 Daily News 14 Oct. 6/1 On the morning of declaration day, there arrived reports about some districts in which the polling had been large.

1906 Daily News 16 Aug. 7/5 After the declaration of the poll Mr.—— thanked his constituents for their splendid victory.

5. The action of declaring for or against (see declare v. 8).

ΚΠ

1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. (ed. 2) i. iii. 73 The natural Fear..which restrains from such Crimes, is a Declaration of Nature against them.

6. A proclamation or public statement as embodied in a document, instrument, or public act.Declaration of Indulgence: see Declaration of Indulgence at indulgence n. 4. Declaration of Rights: ‘a Bill declaring the Rights and Liberties of England, and the Succession to the Crown’ (Burnet), passed in 1689. Declaration of Independence: the public act by which the American Continental Congress, on July 4th, 1776, declared the North American colonies to be free and independent of Great Britain; the document in which this is embodied. Declaration of Paris: a diplomatic instrument signed by the representatives of the powers at the Congress of Paris in 1856, settling and defining important points of maritime law affecting belligerents and neutrals in time of war.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > announcing or proclaiming > [noun] > an announcement or proclamation

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pronunciationc1455

annunciationa1500

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noration1799

pronunciamiento1832

society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > independence > [noun] > national independence > declaration of independence

Declaration of Independence1659

1659 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age ii. i. xviii. 208 A petition from some Lords in England, conformable in the main points to a Declaration of the Scots, which they called the intention of their Army.

1660 A. Marvell Let. 27 Nov. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 5 To morrow the Bill for enacting his Ma^tyes declaration in Religious matters is to haue its first reading.

1777 Ann. Reg. 1776 261 A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, July 4.

1780 Impartial Hist. War Amer. 335 These Articles, as well as the Declaration of Independence, were published in all the Colonies.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality viii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 154 The declaration of Indulgence issued by Charles II.

1837 Knickerbocker Mag. 10 444 He was a distinguished man;..read ‘the Declaration’ on every Fourth-of-July.

1847 J. R. McCulloch Descr. & Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire (ed. 3) II. iv. vi. 209 The principal abuses that had characterized the government of the two preceding reigns, were also enumerated and digested into an instrument, called a Declaration and Claim of Rights, presented and assented to, by the new sovereigns.

1867 Times 21 Feb. 5/4 The Petition of Rights, the bill of Rights, the Declaration of Rights—these are the great charters of our Constitution.

7. Law.

a. The plaintiff's statement of claim in an action; the writing or instrument in which this is made.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > pleading > [noun] > setting forth of plaintiff's case

declaration1483

counting1686

demonstration1854

1483 Act 1 Rich. III c. 6 §1 The Plaintiff..[shall] make Oath..that the Contract..comprised in the same Declaration [etc.].

1579 Rastell's Expos. Termes Lawes (new ed.) Declaratyon is a shewinge forth in writing of the griefe and complaynt of the demaundant or pleintife, against the tenant or defendant.

1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. ii. §151. 67 The declaration shall abate.

1672 W. Wycherley Love in Wood Ded. No man with papers in 's hand is more dreadful than a poet; no, not a lawyer with his declarations.

1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 203 As soon as this action is brought, and the complaint fully stated in the declaration.

1808 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius II. xxi. 729 The first count of the declaration.

b. A simple affirmation allowed to be taken, in certain cases, instead of an oath or solemn affirmation.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [noun] > solemn > asseveration instead of an oath

affirmation1695

declaration1834

1834 Act 5 & 6 Will. IV c. 62.

1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 164 By 5 & 6 Wm. IV, c. 62, for the abolition of unnecessary oaths, any justice..is empowered to take voluntary declarations in the form specified in the act. And any person wilfully making such declaration false, in any material particular, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour.

c. In the Custom-house; see declare v. 10c.

ΚΠ

1853 Act 16 & 17 Victoria c. 107 §186 The master of the ship in which such goods shall be laden shall before clearance make and subscribe a declaration before the proper officer of customs.

1876 Act 39 & 40 Vict. c. 36 §58.

d. The creation or acknowledgement of a trust or use in some form of writing; any writing whereby a trust or use is constituted or proved to exist.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > transfer of property > settlement of property > [noun] > putting property into trust > deed by which trust created

declarationa1626

trust deed1735

a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) 61 Declarations evermore are countermandable in their natures.

1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 449 The only point for which they contended was, that the articles..under which they claimed, amounted to a good declaration of the uses of recovery.

1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 463 A declaration of trust requires no particular form, provided it be proved or manifested in writing.

1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 75 There being no declaration of the trust of the money beyond the life of the wife, it resulted to the heir.

e. Scots Law. ‘In criminal proceedings the account which a prisoner, who has been apprehended on suspicion of having committed a crime, gives of himself on his examination, which is taken down in writing’ (Bell Dict. s.v.). dying declaration: a declaration made by a person on his deathbed, which is admitted as evidence in a prosecution for homicide. judicial declaration: the statement, taken down in writing, of a party when judicially examined as to the particular facts in a civil action.

ΚΠ

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 250 It..usually happens that these declarations become the means of condemning the accused, as it were, out of their own mouths.

1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) 256 The magistrate's proper duty is distinctly to inform the prisoner not only that it is optional for him to make a declaration or not as he pleases, but also that what he says may afterwards be used against him on his trial.

a. In the game of bezique: see quot. ?1870¹.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bezique > [noun] > showing card(s) to claim score

declaration?1870

?1870 F. Hardy & J. R. Ware Mod. Hoyle 153 Declaration is the act of declaring a score by the process of placing certain cards upon the table.

?1870 F. Hardy & J. R. Ware Mod. Hoyle 148 The last declaration must be made before the last two cards are drawn.

b. In the game of Bridge, the naming of the trump suit or the declaring of ‘no trumps’ by any of the players.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > actions or tactics > contract or declaration

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1895 ‘Boaz’ Laws of Bridge 10 His partner must thereupon make the necessary declaration.

1905 in W. Dalton ‘Saturday’ Bridge (1910) 12 If the dealer's partner make the trump declaration without receiving permission from the dealer, the eldest hand may demand: I. That the declaration so made shall stand. II. That there shall be a new deal.

1910 in W. Dalton ‘Saturday’ Bridge (rev. ed.) 38 The declaration at Bridge affords an opportunity for the exercise of certain qualities which were never called into use in the game of Whist.

1910 in W. Dalton ‘Saturday’ Bridge (rev. ed.) 39 The most expensive declaration..being No Trumps, when the value of each trick is twelve points.

c. Cricket. The closing, by the team batting, of an innings. (Cf. declare v. 11b.)

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [noun] > voluntary ending of innings

closure1904

declaration1908

1908 W. E. W. Collins Leaves from Old Country Cricketer's Diary ix. 158 The Malvern boys had proved equal to the emergency..after an apparently safe ‘declaration’ [by their opponents].

1963 A. Ross Australia 63 i. 40 Benaud delayed his declaration.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	declaration
释义	declarationn. /dɛkləˈreɪʃən/ Forms: Also Middle English -acioun, Middle English–1500s -acion. Etymology: < French déclaration or < Latin dēclārātiōn-em , noun of action < dēclārāre to declare v. †1. The action of making clear or clearing up (anything obscure or not understood); elucidation, explanation, interpretation. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [noun] keyeOE undoinga1330 expositiona1340 declarationc1374 declaringc1374 clearingc1380 expoundingc1380 explanationa1382 interpretation1382 exploitingc1390 unfolding1483 explicating1531 explication1537 clearance?1548 elucidation1570 explaining1576 manifestation1576 untwining1577 illustration1581 untwisting1591 eviscerating1599 unclouding1601 enodation1603 opening1611 dilucidation1615 unsnarling1640 declarement1646 enucleation1650 illumination1656 dilucidatinga1660 luciferousness1665 clarifying1677 unravelling1713 disentanglement1751 exegesis1770 disambiguation1827 evisceration1831 keyword1848 clarificationa1866 exponence1880 exponency1880 straightening1900 demystification1964 c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) iii. x. 71–2 Thyse geometryens whan they han shewyd hyr proposiciouns ben wont to bryngen in thinges þat they clepyn porysmes or declaraciouns of forseyde thinges. c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) i. §3. 4 For the more decl [a] racioun [MS decleracioun], lo here the figure. a1527 R. Thorne in R. Hakluyt Divers Voy. (1582) sig. C^v For more declaration of the said card [= map]. 1532–3 Act 24 Hen. VIII c. 5 For the declaracion of the whiche ambyguitee and doubte. 1656 H. Phillippes Purchasers Pattern (1676) 57 This Table is so plain, that it needs no declaration. †2. The setting forth or expounding of a topic; exposition, description, relation. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [noun] descrivingc1325 declaration1382 descriptiona1387 devisementc1400 descrying1440 presentmentc1454 describing1553 delineation1578 display1583 presentation1597 representationa1602 diction1604 characterism1608 deciphera1670 characterization1801 redescription1839 descriptivism1935 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Deut. xvii. 18 He shal discriue..a declaracioun of this lawe [L. deuteronomium legis hujus] in a volym. a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 18 Þe childirn of Noe..of whos issew here schal be a declaracioun. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 95 A description or an evident declaration of a thyng as though we sawe it even now doen. 1619 Mirr. Mag. (title page) With a Declaration of all the Warres, Battels and Sea-fights, during her Reigne. 1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. v. §437. 189 Of Dower ad ostium ecclesiæ, a good declaration hath beene made by Master Littleton in his first booke. 3. a. The action of stating, telling, setting forth, or announcing openly, explicitly or formally; positive statement or assertion; an assertion, announcement or proclamation in emphatic, solemn, or legal terms. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > [noun] declaration1340 propositionc1390 presentmentc1454 unsecretness1526 advancement1532 representation1553 upgiving1574 pronouncement1593 presentation1597 proposal1597 declarement1633 pronounce1641 enunciation1651 declaring1667 advance1699 declarature1729 statement1776 stating1780 constatation1952 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 2606 Þan sal he deme ilka nacyon, And mak a fynal declaracyon Of alle þe domes byfor shewed. 1426 in Surtees Misc. (1890) 9 Apon þis declaracion made. 1547 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. iii. 161 Crosses to be sett vpon mens dores for the declaracion of the plage. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. ii. 51 His promises are nothing else but declarations what God will do for the good of men. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxi. 114 If he dye..without declaration of his Heyre. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 152. ⁋3 Declarations of fidelity. 1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility I. ix. 95 In spite of Marianne's declaration that the day would be lastingly fair. View more context for this quotation 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. iii. 262 The pope made a public declaration with respect to the dispute. 1881 W. Bagehot Biogr. Stud. 290 The first declaration of love was made by the lady. b. spec. A declaration of love; a proposal of marriage. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > proposal of marriage > [noun] offer1548 proposal1657 declaration1740 the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [noun] > act of courtship > love proposal or declaration assault1600 declaration1740 1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxxi. 192 I am glad at my Heart, Madam, that I was before-hand in my Declarations to you. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxxi. 193 What Necessity was there for you to talk of your former Declaration? 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xvi. 163 My wife undertook to sound him..in the choice of an husband for her eldest daughter. If this was not found sufficient to induce him to a declaration, it was then fixed upon to terrify him with a rival. 1850 C. Dickens David Copperfield xxxiii. 344 I went to Miss Mills's, fraught with a declaration. 1937 ‘E. M. Delafield’ Ladies & Gentlemen in Victorian Fiction iii. 89 The Victorian papa..was by no means invariably consulted before a ‘declaration’ took place. 4. a. declaration of war: formal announcement or proclamation by a Power of the commencement of hostilities against another Power. Also declaration of peace. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > [noun] > declaration of war declaration of wara1387 intimation1548 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 243 When þe Romaynes wolde werry in eny lond, schulde oon goo..and clereliche declare..þe matire and cause of the werre, and þat declaracioun was i-cleped clarigatio. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccvii She was sent..with a plain ouerture and declaracion of peace. 1762 Universal Mag. Feb. 99 The following is a Declaration of War by Spain against Great Britain dated the 16th of January. 1803 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 389 Declarations of war and peace, when presented by the executive to the legislative body, are to be adopted [etc.]. 1828 W. F. Napier Hist. War Peninsula I. 137 The invasion of Napoleon produced a friendly alliance between those countries without a declaration of peace. 1845 A. Polson in Encycl. Metrop. 728/1 The custom of making a declaration of war to the enemy, previous to the commencement of hostilities, is of great antiquity, and was practised even by the Romans..Since, however, the peace of Versailles, in 1763, such declarations have been discontinued, and the present usage is, for the state with whom the war commences to publish a manifesto within its own territories. b. declaration of the poll: the public official announcement of the numbers polled for each candidate at an election. Hence attributive in declaration day. ΚΠ 1835 C. Dickens Let. 18 Dec. (1965) I. 109 It will be unnecessary for me to remain here for the Declaration of the Poll on Monday. 1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. i. viii. 114 Upon the closing of the poll, the poll-books are sealed, and kept under seal until the declaration of the poll. 1892 Daily News 14 Oct. 6/1 On the morning of declaration day, there arrived reports about some districts in which the polling had been large. 1906 Daily News 16 Aug. 7/5 After the declaration of the poll Mr.—— thanked his constituents for their splendid victory. 5. The action of declaring for or against (see declare v. 8). ΚΠ 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. (ed. 2) i. iii. 73 The natural Fear..which restrains from such Crimes, is a Declaration of Nature against them. 6. A proclamation or public statement as embodied in a document, instrument, or public act.Declaration of Indulgence: see Declaration of Indulgence at indulgence n. 4. Declaration of Rights: ‘a Bill declaring the Rights and Liberties of England, and the Succession to the Crown’ (Burnet), passed in 1689. Declaration of Independence: the public act by which the American Continental Congress, on July 4th, 1776, declared the North American colonies to be free and independent of Great Britain; the document in which this is embodied. Declaration of Paris: a diplomatic instrument signed by the representatives of the powers at the Congress of Paris in 1856, settling and defining important points of maritime law affecting belligerents and neutrals in time of war. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > announcing or proclaiming > [noun] > an announcement or proclamation ban1297 proclamationa1325 pronouncing1442 pronunciationc1455 annunciationa1500 announcement1512 placard1560 placate1567 bando1598 bill1642 declaration1659 advertisement1692 noration1799 pronunciamiento1832 society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > independence > [noun] > national independence > declaration of independence Declaration of Independence1659 1659 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age ii. i. xviii. 208 A petition from some Lords in England, conformable in the main points to a Declaration of the Scots, which they called the intention of their Army. 1660 A. Marvell Let. 27 Nov. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 5 To morrow the Bill for enacting his Ma^tyes declaration in Religious matters is to haue its first reading. 1777 Ann. Reg. 1776 261 A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled, July 4. 1780 Impartial Hist. War Amer. 335 These Articles, as well as the Declaration of Independence, were published in all the Colonies. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality viii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 154 The declaration of Indulgence issued by Charles II. 1837 Knickerbocker Mag. 10 444 He was a distinguished man;..read ‘the Declaration’ on every Fourth-of-July. 1847 J. R. McCulloch Descr. & Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire (ed. 3) II. iv. vi. 209 The principal abuses that had characterized the government of the two preceding reigns, were also enumerated and digested into an instrument, called a Declaration and Claim of Rights, presented and assented to, by the new sovereigns. 1867 Times 21 Feb. 5/4 The Petition of Rights, the bill of Rights, the Declaration of Rights—these are the great charters of our Constitution. 7. Law. a. The plaintiff's statement of claim in an action; the writing or instrument in which this is made. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > pleading > [noun] > setting forth of plaintiff's case declaration1483 counting1686 demonstration1854 1483 Act 1 Rich. III c. 6 §1 The Plaintiff..[shall] make Oath..that the Contract..comprised in the same Declaration [etc.]. 1579 Rastell's Expos. Termes Lawes (new ed.) Declaratyon is a shewinge forth in writing of the griefe and complaynt of the demaundant or pleintife, against the tenant or defendant. 1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. ii. §151. 67 The declaration shall abate. 1672 W. Wycherley Love in Wood Ded. No man with papers in 's hand is more dreadful than a poet; no, not a lawyer with his declarations. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 203 As soon as this action is brought, and the complaint fully stated in the declaration. 1808 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius II. xxi. 729 The first count of the declaration. b. A simple affirmation allowed to be taken, in certain cases, instead of an oath or solemn affirmation. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [noun] > solemn > asseveration instead of an oath affirmation1695 declaration1834 1834 Act 5 & 6 Will. IV c. 62. 1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 164 By 5 & 6 Wm. IV, c. 62, for the abolition of unnecessary oaths, any justice..is empowered to take voluntary declarations in the form specified in the act. And any person wilfully making such declaration false, in any material particular, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour. c. In the Custom-house; see declare v. 10c. ΚΠ 1853 Act 16 & 17 Victoria c. 107 §186 The master of the ship in which such goods shall be laden shall before clearance make and subscribe a declaration before the proper officer of customs. 1876 Act 39 & 40 Vict. c. 36 §58. d. The creation or acknowledgement of a trust or use in some form of writing; any writing whereby a trust or use is constituted or proved to exist. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > settlement of property > [noun] > putting property into trust > deed by which trust created declarationa1626 trust deed1735 a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) 61 Declarations evermore are countermandable in their natures. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 449 The only point for which they contended was, that the articles..under which they claimed, amounted to a good declaration of the uses of recovery. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 463 A declaration of trust requires no particular form, provided it be proved or manifested in writing. 1827 T. Jarman Powell's Ess. Learning of Devises (ed. 3) II. 75 There being no declaration of the trust of the money beyond the life of the wife, it resulted to the heir. e. Scots Law. ‘In criminal proceedings the account which a prisoner, who has been apprehended on suspicion of having committed a crime, gives of himself on his examination, which is taken down in writing’ (Bell Dict. s.v.). dying declaration: a declaration made by a person on his deathbed, which is admitted as evidence in a prosecution for homicide. judicial declaration: the statement, taken down in writing, of a party when judicially examined as to the particular facts in a civil action. ΚΠ 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 250 It..usually happens that these declarations become the means of condemning the accused, as it were, out of their own mouths. 1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) 256 The magistrate's proper duty is distinctly to inform the prisoner not only that it is optional for him to make a declaration or not as he pleases, but also that what he says may afterwards be used against him on his trial. 8. a. In the game of bezique: see quot. ?1870¹. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bezique > [noun] > showing card(s) to claim score declaration?1870 ?1870 F. Hardy & J. R. Ware Mod. Hoyle 153 Declaration is the act of declaring a score by the process of placing certain cards upon the table. ?1870 F. Hardy & J. R. Ware Mod. Hoyle 148 The last declaration must be made before the last two cards are drawn. b. In the game of Bridge, the naming of the trump suit or the declaring of ‘no trumps’ by any of the players. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > actions or tactics > contract or declaration declaration1895 make1902 contract1908 part score1932 1895 ‘Boaz’ Laws of Bridge 10 His partner must thereupon make the necessary declaration. 1905 in W. Dalton ‘Saturday’ Bridge (1910) 12 If the dealer's partner make the trump declaration without receiving permission from the dealer, the eldest hand may demand: I. That the declaration so made shall stand. II. That there shall be a new deal. 1910 in W. Dalton ‘Saturday’ Bridge (rev. ed.) 38 The declaration at Bridge affords an opportunity for the exercise of certain qualities which were never called into use in the game of Whist. 1910 in W. Dalton ‘Saturday’ Bridge (rev. ed.) 39 The most expensive declaration..being No Trumps, when the value of each trick is twelve points. c. Cricket. The closing, by the team batting, of an innings. (Cf. declare v. 11b.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [noun] > voluntary ending of innings closure1904 declaration1908 1908 W. E. W. Collins Leaves from Old Country Cricketer's Diary ix. 158 The Malvern boys had proved equal to the emergency..after an apparently safe ‘declaration’ [by their opponents]. 1963 A. Ross Australia 63 i. 40 Benaud delayed his declaration. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1340
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