| 单词 | hanging judge |
| 释义 | > as lemmashanging judge 5. In transitive sense: That causes (persons) to be hanged; addicted to hanging. Chiefly hanging judge. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [adjective] hanging1847 society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > judge > [noun] > severe Rhadamanthus1573 hanging judge1847 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xlii. 382 Celebrated as a hanging judge. 1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. ii. iv. 339 Your Bruddersfordian is a hanging judge of anything that costs money. 1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier ix. 178 The worst criminal..is morally superior to a hanging judge. 1963 Times 9 Mar. 9/6 He became an advocate of reform and a hanging judge of the powers that be in politics, commerce and agriculture. 1972 M. Gee In my Father's Den 121 Price..is a combination public relations man and hanging judge. < as lemmas |
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