单词 | magistrature |
释义 | magistraturen. a. The dignity or office of magistrate; magisterial office; civil government or administration; (occasionally) the exercise of magisterial office; (as a count noun) the position of a particular magistrate identified contextually. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > [noun] > position of magistrate?a1425 magistery1566 magistrateship1574 magistracy1577 magistrature1672 1672 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 23 That noe person whatsoever bee admitted into any Place of Magistrature or Government..till [etc.]. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1679 (1955) IV. 187 I din'd at my Lord Majors..such an hospitable costome, & splendid Magistrature, dos no Citty..in the world shew. 1791 State Papers in Ann. Reg. 183 In case..of a collision between magistratures. 1826 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. (ed. 2) II. 563 [Cicero] Finding all our magistratures in the disposal of the senate. 1829 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. 2nd Ser. II. 192 [Epicurus] Giving to this one rightly what that one would hold wrongfully, is justice in magistrature. 1833 New Monthly Mag. 37 465 The family rose to the dignities of the magistrature. 1836 E. Bulwer-Lytton Athens (1837) I. 209 Aristotle paints the evil of the ephoral magistrature, but acknowledges that it gave strength and durability to the state. 1871 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 143 The war which a great people was waging..for the idea of nationality and orderly magistrature. b. figurative. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1796 C. Burney Mem. Life Metastasio II. 325 Does music aspire at this supreme magistrature? ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > [noun] > position of > of an individual or term of office of magistrateship1574 magistrature1720 magistracy1875 1720 J. Ozell et al. tr. R. A. de Vertot Hist. Revol. Rom. Republic I. i. 59 The two Consuls, whose Magistrature was expiring, appointed the Assembly for the Election of their Successors. 1824 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. I. xiii. 227 A..man, who can reproach himself with no perversion or neglect of justice in a magistrature of twenty years. 3. Magistrates collectively; a body of magistrates. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > [noun] > collectively bench1518 magistery1583 magistracy1607 supreme bench1767 magistrature1830 1830 Examiner 548/1 The magistrature continued. The very men who had opposed the liberty of the press..continued in their positions. 1859 Sat. Rev. 7 273/2 That illustrious magistrature which, in former days, guided France by their counsels. 1898 A. W. Ward in Eng. Hist. Rev. Jan. 175 The conservative tendencies of the Belgian magistrature. 1971 Guardian 22 Feb. 10/3 The country's magistrature has been seething with anger over an insult from a UDR majority party official. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1672 |
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