单词 | encroachment |
释义 | encroachmentn. The action of encroaching, in various senses; spec. in Law (see quot. 1604). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > [noun] > gradual or usurping encroachment1523 encroach1611 society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [noun] > infringement of rights, etc. intrusion1433 intruseryc1470 attainmentc1503 encroachment1523 encroaching1539 trenching1543 infringinga1575 usurpationa1626 entrenching1629 entrenchment1635 invasion1650 impingement1671 infringement1673 trespass1769 usurpature1845 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [noun] > passing beyond a point or limit > physically encroaching encroachment1523 encroach1611 1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xi. f. 15 But and there shalbe made any new incrochmentes or intackis inclosed or taken in out of the commens. 1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie xxi. 49 Ye thus.. Usurpe on vs by meane of encrochement. 1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Encrochment, when the Lord hath gotten seisen of more rent, or seruices of his tenant then of right is due. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. iii. 8 The people..being ready with open armes to receive the encroachments of Error. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 72 But this Usurper his encroachment proud Stayes not on Man. View more context for this quotation 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 111 Encroachment of jurisdiction, or calling one coram non judice, to answer in a court that has no legal cognizance of the cause. 1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. IV. xliv. 228 By these incroachments the nucleus of a spot is divided into two or more nuclei. 1830 H. Rogers Ess. (1850) II. iv. 199 We..find the Latin element making undue encroachments. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 433 The intervening strip of land, narrower now than then owing to the encroachment of the waves. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1523 |
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