单词 | interreign |
释义 | interreignn. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > temporary rule in vacancy > [noun] interreign1533 interregnum1579 interregency1600 space-government1600 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) i. 30 This governance..wes callit the Interregne; that is to say, the vacance betwix the deith of ane king, to the electioun of ane uthir. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. iii. viii. 93 P. Valerius Poplicola, the third day of his Interreigne or Regencie for the time, createth Consuls. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. viii. vii. 408/2 Sauing the small Inter-Raignes of these three Danish Kings. 2. = interregnum n. 2. Now unusual. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of power > [noun] > (period of) suspension of ruling power > in a state interreign1587 interregnum1590 1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 161/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II They..confer togither how they may in this inter-reigne win the spurs, and be vtterlie deliuered from the English gouernement. 1689 W. Walker tr. H. Languet Vindiciæ contra Tyrannos (new ed.) 74 Succession was tollerated to avoid..contentions, interraigns, and other discommodities of Elections. 1775 J. Planta in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 66 139 The confusions, divisions, and interreigns which frequently distracted the empire. 1828 J. C. Hare & C. Thirlwall tr. B. G. Niebuhr Hist. Rome (1855) I. 265 It very easily..happened that the outgoing magistrates did not complete the election, and that an interreign took place. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1533 |
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