单词 | moot hall |
释义 | moot halln. A council chamber; a town hall; a courtroom, a court of justice; (Law) †a hall where moot cases are discussed (obsolete).Now historical, but still occurring in the names of particular buildings in some English towns. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > [noun] > place of > hall, house, or room moot-houseOE moot hall1305 council house1393 chamber1428 council-chamberc1515 session-house1599 camera1658 council-hall1683 council-room1774 society > law > legal profession > [noun] > Inns of Court > part where students practise moot hall1684 moot court1788 1305 Manorial Documents in Mod. Philol. (1936) 34 42 (MED) Motehalle. c1330 in T. Wright Polit. Songs Eng. (1839) 336 (MED) Justises, shirreves, meires, baillifs..ne leven..for no sklaundre, And maken the mot-halle at hom in here chaumbre, wid wouh. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds xxiii. 35 He comaundide him..to be kept in the pretorie, or moote halle, of Heroude. a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) II. 123 Þei ledden Jesus..in to þe mut-halle. c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 299 (MED) Saynt Leonard apperid in myddest of þe mute-hall. a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 729/22 Hoc pretorium, a moythalle. 1526 Pylgrimage of Perfection (de Worde) f. 253 He was brought forth agayn of the mote hall, & presented to the iewes. 1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Hvjv The scribes pray me, for maine affayres To haste the moute hal fro. c1600 Hist. & Life James VI (1825) 369 The watche-bell of the mute-hall (whilk is the common place of justice in Carlisle) was also rung for harmonie. 1648 Siege of Colchester in Antiquary Apr. (1880) 168 Fairfax..appointed a Council of War which met at the Moot Hall. 1677 W. Nicolson Gloss. Cumbrian Dial. in Trans. Royal Soc. Lit. (1870) 9 316 Moothall, guildhall. 1684 T. Manley Νομοθετης: Cowell's Interpreter (ed. 2) at Moot The places where Moot-Cases were argued, was anciently called a Moot-hall. 1794 W. Hutchinson Hist. Cumberland I. 253 The hall in which the assizes are held at Carlisle, still goes by the name of the mote, or moot-hall. 1865 Reader 5 Aug. 144 [Hexham] A picturesque moot-hall and prison in one. 1905 Athenæum 23 Sept. 402/2 Kindly coastguards had stretched flags from the old Moot Hall [in Aldeburgh] to the houses opposite. 1988 Holiday Which? Jan. 14/1 Keswick is..a sturdy market town with a..moot hall in the middle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1305 |
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