| 单词 | drumhead court martial |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdrumhead court martial C1. Designating an improvised tribunal for the summary administration of justice during military operations (esp. in drumhead court martial). Also: designating justice, discipline, etc., of the kind administered at such a tribunal; summary. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > court dealing with military offences court martiala1604 drumhead1796 court of inquiry1808 drumhead court-martial1835 1796 J. Vancouver Enq. Causes & Production Poverty 142 A drum head court-martial, or enquiries by the soldiers in the misdemeanors of their comrades. 1822 tr. C. Dupin Tour Naval & Mil. Establishments Great Brit. ii. v. 105 Officers are assembled round a drum, which forms the desk of this itinerant tribunal... This species of judicature is called drum-head trial. 1847 J. S. Le Fanu T. O'Brien 168 If your majesty were to give them drumhead law. 1898 Argosy Sept. 227 He ordered a drumhead court martial to be held immediately in the parlor of the farmhouse. 1937 Vermont: Guide to Green Mountain State (Federal Writers' Project) ii. 87 From Bennington to Burlington the rough-and-ready Green Mountain Boys ranged, dealing out drumhead justice to all New York sympathizers and Tories. 1997 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 17 July 21/2 Guevara set up an improvised drumhead tribunal at the harbor fortress of La Cabana. 2012 R. M. Wilson Legal Executions Nebraska, Kansas & Oklahoma 62/2 Raymond was tried at a drumhead court martial, found guilty, and sentenced to be shot on Sunday, November 24, 1861. < as lemmas |
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