英语词汇“a matter of form”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. A set, customary, or prescribed way of doing anything; a set method of procedure according to rule (e.g. at law); formal procedure. a matter of form: a point of formal procedure; originally a legal phrase; hence colloquial = a merely formal affair; a point of ordinary routine.

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > prescribed rule of conduct > a prescribed course or procedure

form1297

ordinarya1400

the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > acting according to some standard, fashion, etc. > conformity to established rules > mere conventional observance > something done for form's sake

formality1664

form1711

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 491 & in gode fourme acorded hii were.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 19981 Þe form þat him bitaght was ar O baptisȝing, he held it þar.

a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 23 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) The wrongfull distrayning of any mans goods, against the forme of Common Law.

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iv. i. 2 The plaine forme of marriage.

1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. viii. 478 Their general; who used, in all dispatches made by Himself, to observe all decency in the forms.

1711 [see sense 15a].

1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 55. 355 The Lords..only laid hold of some Forms of Law to have prevented Judgment.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. iv. 59 He was content to go on in the old Forms.

1787 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 272 A paper from the admiralty..sent to me as a matter of form.

1805 T. Lindley Voy. Brasil (1808) 77 To make his report..from whence he came, &c. (a form to which the Portuguese merchantmen are all subject).

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. ix. 706 The other commissioners being seldom called to deliberate, or so much as assemble for form sake.

1824 H. J. Stephen Treat. Princ. Pleading ii. §1. 254 As the party has no option in accepting the issue, when well tendered, and as the similiter may in that case be added for him, the acceptance of the issue when well tendered, may be considered as a mere matter of form.

1870 J. Lubbock Origin of Civilisation (ed. 2) i. 2 The form of capture in weddings.

单词	a matter of form
释义	> as lemmas a matter of form a. A set, customary, or prescribed way of doing anything; a set method of procedure according to rule (e.g. at law); formal procedure. a matter of form: a point of formal procedure; originally a legal phrase; hence colloquial = a merely formal affair; a point of ordinary routine. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > prescribed rule of conduct > a prescribed course or procedure form1297 ordinarya1400 the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [noun] > acting according to some standard, fashion, etc. > conformity to established rules > mere conventional observance > something done for form's sake formality1664 form1711 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 491 & in gode fourme acorded hii were. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 19981 Þe form þat him bitaght was ar O baptisȝing, he held it þar. a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 23 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) The wrongfull distrayning of any mans goods, against the forme of Common Law. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iv. i. 2 The plaine forme of marriage. View more context for this quotation 1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. viii. 478 Their general; who used, in all dispatches made by Himself, to observe all decency in the forms. 1711 [see sense 15a]. 1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 55. 355 The Lords..only laid hold of some Forms of Law to have prevented Judgment. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. iv. 59 He was content to go on in the old Forms. 1787 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 272 A paper from the admiralty..sent to me as a matter of form. 1805 T. Lindley Voy. Brasil (1808) 77 To make his report..from whence he came, &c. (a form to which the Portuguese merchantmen are all subject). 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. v. ix. 706 The other commissioners being seldom called to deliberate, or so much as assemble for form sake. 1824 H. J. Stephen Treat. Princ. Pleading ii. §1. 254 As the party has no option in accepting the issue, when well tendered, and as the similiter may in that case be added for him, the acceptance of the issue when well tendered, may be considered as a mere matter of form. 1870 J. Lubbock Origin of Civilisation (ed. 2) i. 2 The form of capture in weddings. extracted from formn. < as lemmas
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