| 单词 | moses' law |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMoses' law Moses' law n. (a) the ancient law of the Hebrews, contained in the Pentateuch; = Mosaic law n. at Mosaic adj.2 1; †(b) (among pirates) a punishment of thirty-nine lashes (one short of the biblical limit of forty lashes: see Deuteronomy 25:3) (obsolete rare). ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > beating swingingc1200 beating?c1225 chastising1303 correctionc1386 lashingc1400 scouring1426 Moses' law1482 jerking1552 whipping1566 yarking1573 feaking1600 correct1606 tawing1620 lacing1622 castigation1640 basking1642 verberation1661 strappado1668 the lash1694 flogging1758 whopping1812 quilting1822 blistering1842 whaling1852 nailing1895 1482 W. Caxton tr. Higden's Prolicionycion iii. f. clv Wyse men of the Iewes that shold torne moyses lawe oute of hebrew in to grue[k]. 1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 32 Our Saviour heer confutes not Moses Law, but the false glosses that deprav'd the Law. 1742 A. B. Myst. Phanaticism xii. 105 The numerous and burdensome Rites and Ceremonies of Moses' Law. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Moses' law, the term among pirates for inflicting thirty-nine lashes on the bare back—forty save one. 1994 Goderich (Ont.) Signal-Star 25 May b12/2 An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,..given in the Moses law. 2013 L. J. Swain in A. J. Zinn et al. Illuminating Moses 59 The Chronicler gives his sons and descendants names and ties his hero Ezra to Moses, a scribe skilled in Moses' law (Ezra 7:1). < as lemmas |
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