单词 | motion-maker |
释义 | > as lemmasmotion-maker motion-maker n. a person who makes formal proposal or legal petition. ΚΠ 1652 Mercurius Democritus No. 8. 60 There is order given to the Arch-Duke of that place to get ready a Surloyne of Beefe,..and so to be received again into favour, and to be ever after that the only Motion-maker for Breakefasts. 1771 in Catal. Prints: Polit. & Personal Satires (Brit. Mus.) (1883) V. 36 The Sorry Motion Maker. 1778 Ld. Mansfield in J. Oldham Mansfield MSS (1992) I. 748 Defendant employed me as a Motion Maker. 1818 J. Bentham Church-of-Englandism 118 Of these same motion-makers, the third..is Earl Nelson. 1995 Palm Beach (Florida) Post (Nexis) 23 July 1 a The board is split in many other ways, of course. The liberal and the conservative. The feisty and the conciliatory. The motion-makers and the followers. < as lemmas |
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