单词 | imperation |
释义 | imperationn. 1. The action or fact of governing, commanding, or directing something; command; governance. Chiefly Philosophy and Theology, with reference to an imperate action (see imperate adj. 2). Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > command > [noun] > action of commanding commandinga1400 imperation1655 1655 E. Waterhouse Modest Disc. Piety, Charity & Policy 33 No Master will I own (as to imperation over my faith) but Christ. 1671 J. Truman Disc. Nat. & Moral Impotency 152 The direct act is not subject to the imperation of the reflex act at all immediately. 1873 D. H. Hamilton Autology iv. i. 625 In this susception and in this imperation it [sc. the conscience] acts of necessity, having no choice or intelligence of its own. 1890 R. S. Foster Theism 144 Wherever the categorical ought is found God is disclosed. The soul no sooner feels the imperation than it sees him. 1940 Thomist 2 561 The only way in which obedience..can supersede an act of the virtue of religion is by coming under the imperation of religion. 1989 Grand Street 8 233 ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ was instinct with authority and imperation. 2. In Jeremy Bentham's terminology: the exercising of command by a sovereign or other authority, as effected by ensuring obedience through the fear of punishment. Chiefly in the power of imperation.Contrasted with contrectation, or the regulation and implementation of the punishment. ΚΠ 1782 J. Bentham Let. 3 June in Corr. (2017) III. 124 This being the branch [sc. the penal branch of law] in which those characters of imperation which are essential to everything that bears the name of law were most distinct. a1832 J. Bentham Princ. Internat. Law in Wks. (1839) VIII. ii. 540/1 What is dominion? It is either the power of contrectation, or else that of imperation... But the power of contrectation is a sort of power which, in a settled government, it scarcely ever becomes either necessary or agreeable to the sovereign, as such, to exercise; so that under the head of the power of imperation is comprised all the power which the sovereign is accustomed to exercise. 1945 Jrnl. Philos. 42 614 Bentham presents succinctly the two ideas: law has a predictive character that is co-equal to that of ‘imperation’, and law as a mere declaration is meaningless and without force unless and until it gets some further instrument, some further concretion. 1996 Oxf. Jrnl. Legal Stud. 16 139 The power (of imperation) to issue an injunction requiring a violent husband or cohabitee to exercise his will not to molest his partner will be ineffective unless accompanied by powers (of contrectation) of arrest and of imprisonment upon his body for breach of the injunction. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1655 |
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