单词 | declinatory |
释义 | declinatoryadj.n. A. adj. That declines (sense 14a); expressing refusal. declinatory plea (Law): a plea intended to show that the party was exempt from the jurisdiction of the court, or from the penalty of the law; abolished in 1826. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > refusal > [adjective] refusing1409 negative1576 declining1639 declinatory1673 ungiving1682 negativing1776 disavowing1828 society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > pleading > [noun] > a pleading or plea > plea objecting to jurisdiction or competence exception1413 declinature1639 declinatory1693 declinatory plea1769 1673 A. Marvell Let. 5 Apr. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 278 Return an answer..in a civill but declinatory way. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 327 Formerly..the benefit of clergy used to be pleaded before trial or conviction, and was called a declinatory plea. 1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 165/1 Declinatory plea, a plea of sanctuary, also pleading benefit of clergy before trial or conviction. B. n. 1. Law. A declinatory plea. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > pleading > [noun] > a pleading or plea > plea objecting to jurisdiction or competence exception1413 declinature1639 declinatory1693 declinatory plea1769 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxxix. 326 Declinatories [Fr. declinatoires], Anticipatories. a1734 R. North Lives of Norths (1826) I. 342 They had a declinatory of course: viz..‘That matters of Parliament were too high for them’. ΚΠ 1703 Moxon's Mech. Dyalling (ed. 4) in Moxon's Mech. Exercises (new ed.) 311 If the Situation of the Plane be not given, you must seek it..the readiest and easiest [way] is by an Instrument called a Declinatory. 1779 Chambers's Cycl. (rev. ed.) II. at Declinator Declinator, or Declinatory, an instrument in dialling, whereby the declination, inclination, and reclination of planes is determined. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adj.n.1673 |
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