| 单词 | judicial combat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjudicial combat d. Designating a duel or battle carried out to resolve a legal dispute or settle a case; esp. in judicial combat, judicial duel. Cf. trial by combat at combat n. 1a. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] > single combat or duel handplayeOE deraignc1300 battlea1400 duellation1502 two-hand battlec1503 combat1567 push of pick1578 monomachy1582 combacy1586 hand fight1587 duel1589 rencounter1590 single fight1598 field meeting1603 camp-fight1605 duello1606 judicial combat1610 fight of stand?1611 stand-fight?1611 business1612 monomachia1624 single combat1625 single field1630 duelliona1637 rencontrea1722 affair of honour1737 meeting1813 holmgang1847 mensur1848 duomachy1885 1610 J. Selden Duello sig. A3 First authors of the Iudiciall Duell. 1610 J. Selden Duello xi. 40 Of Iudicial Combats Criminal, some are for triall of a particular obiected misdeed, against which the Common lawe by ordinary course proceedes. 1712 Acct. Damnable Prizes Old Nicks Lottery 34 Had they had the Civil Advantages we enjoy, judicial Duel had never, probably, been set up. 1779 Ann. Reg. 1778 162/1 In these proceedings, we perceive the source of the judicial combat, which spread so universally over Europe. 1834 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Seine 56 The practice of private duels grew naturally out of judicial combats. 1882 H. Spencer Princ. Sociol. III. §522 Judicial duels..continued in France down to the close of the 14th century. 1904 E. P. Cheyney Short Hist. Eng. vii. 110 The court might declare that the truth or falsity of the charge should be decided by a judicial battle. 1958 G. Clark War & Society 17th Cent. ii. 36 In France King Henry IV reintroduced the judicial duel in 1609. 2002 R. Cohen By Sword i. iii. 43 In 967 the Council of Ravenna declared judicial combat acceptable, citing David's triumph over Goliath as evidence of divine sanction. < as lemmas |
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