| 单词 | at the bar |
| 释义 | > as lemmasat the bar a. With things which are the objects or centres of special activities, and are more or less put for the activities themselves: at meat = eating; at the bar = acting as a barrister, or as one on trial; at grass = grazing; at the stake, at the wheel, at the plough, etc.; at bat: see bat n.2 3d. ΚΠ OE Beowulf 1110 Æt þæm áde wæs eþgesýne swátfáh syrce. c1220 Hali Meid. 37 Seoð þe cat at the fliche and te hund at te huide. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 285 To be of bold word atte mete. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. vi. 104 And ben his pilgryme atte plow for pore mennes sake. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 283 Forto spende it at the wijn. 1611 Bible (King James) Jer. l. 11 As fat as the heifer at grass. 1773 S. Johnson in J. Boswell Life Johnson (1831) III. 91 He must be a great English lawyer, from having been so long at the bar. 1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility III. vi. 118 And idled away the mornings at billiards. View more context for this quotation 1880 J. A. Froude Bunyan 4 His father brought him up at his own trade. at (the) bar a. This barrier, as the place at which all the business of the court was transacted, soon became synonymous with: Court; esp. in at (the) bar: in court, in open court. trial at bar: a trial before the full court in which the action or indictment is brought; in England, the Queen's Bench Division. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [adverb] > in court at (the) barc1330 society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > place where court is held > [noun] > bar of tribunal barc1330 barracec1613 public bar1654 society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > trying or hearing of cause > [noun] > trial > other types of trial oyer?a1475 trial by proviso1676 political trial1774 drumhead court-martial1835 trial at bar1866 speedy trial1894 show trial1928 treason trial1930 war trial1949 split trial1960 spy trial1972 c1330 in Pol. Songs 339 Countours in benche that stondeth at the barre, Theih wolen bigile the. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. i. 160 Seriauntes hij semede · þat seruen atte barre. a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 173 Þis ȝere [1362] was ordeyned þat all plees at þe barre schuld be in Englisch tunge. 1549 R. Crowley Voyce Laste Trumpet sig. Civ Thou wylt stande at a barre ballyng. 1656 A. Cowley Pindaric Odes in Wks. I. 228 Thou neither great..at th' Exchange shalt be, nor at the wrangling Bar. 1689 Proc. & Tryal Archbishop of Canterbury & Right Rev. Fathers 44 We are very desirous it should be tryed at Bar. 1803 J. Marshall Writings upon Federal Constit. (1839) 2 These principles have been very ably argued at the bar. 1866 Notes & Queries 3rd Ser. 9 449/2 The first instance of a trial at bar has just occurred at Melbourne. < as lemmas |
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