| 单词 | faculty to burden |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfaculty to burden a. Power, liberty, or right of doing something, conferred by law or permission of a superior. faculty to burden (Scots Law): see quot. 1809. ΘΚΠ society > authority > delegated authority > [noun] > to act powerc1300 faculty1534 1534 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 128 They would clere take away from the Chaunceller all faculty to banish..eny townesmen. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. vii. 17 Duncane Hath borne his Faculties so meeke. View more context for this quotation 1681 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 271 Usinge the facultie of a freeman. 1752 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. III. 345 Pole..laid aside the marks of his legatine authority and abstained from the exercise of his faculties. 1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames viii. 259 Care has been manifested in..divesting Power of the Faculty of Abuse. 1809 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. (at cited word) In the Scotch law..a faculty to burden is the power or right of charging an estate with a sum of money. 1824 J. Marshall Writings upon Federal Constit. (1839) 320 The charter of incorporation..gives it [a bank] every faculty which it possesses. 1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. ix. 287 Something anti-civil and anti-social, which the State had the faculty to judge and the duty to suppress. < as lemmas |
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