单词 | national assembly |
释义 | national assemblyn. 1. A national synod or church assembly. In later use (with capital initials, in full National Assembly of the Church of England): an assembly of representatives of the Church of England, first convened in 1919 (superseded in 1970 by the General Synod); = church assembly n. (b) at church n.1 and adj. Compounds 2. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > council > Church of England > [noun] national assembly1591 church congress1836 church assembly1919 1591 Headis & Concl. Policie of Kirk in A. Peterkin Bk. Universall Kirk Scotl. (1839) 550 The nationall assemblie..may be callit the Generall Elderschip of the haill kirkis within the realme. 1621 First & Second Bk. Discipline (Church of Scotl.) 89 The Nationall Assemblies of the Countrey, called commonly the Generall Assemblies. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 219 in Justice Vindicated The Emperors and Kings did convoke..Provincial and National Assemblies and Synods. a1699 J. Kirkton Secret & True Hist. Church Scotl. (1817) 64 By a solemn legation of commissioners from euery presbytrie, they used yearly to constitute a national assembly. 1919 Act 9 & 10 Geo. V c. 76 §1 ‘The National Assembly of the Church of England’ (hereinafter called ‘the Church Assembly’). 1938 Amer. Hist. Rev. 44 32 The early ordinances on ecclesiastical affairs..provided for a Presbyterian hierarchy of church courts from congregational elderships..to the national assembly. 1972 O.E.D. Suppl. at Church sb. Church Assembly, short title of the National Assembly of the Church of England. 2. a. An assembly consisting of representatives of all parts of a nation; an elected house of legislature in any of various countries. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > [noun] mootOE councilc1275 mootingc1275 dayc1300 assembly1366 consistoryc1374 house1389 parliamentc1390 convention1554 synodal1573 synod1578 synedrion1581 convenement1603 gemot1643 consessus1646 legislative council1651 national assembly1702 council-general1817 concilium1834 runanga1857 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. ii. 85 That National, or General Assemblies should be call'd only by the King's Authority. 1883 Students' Encycl. II. 368/1 D[enmark] is governed by a hereditary monarchy, and by a National Assembly or Rigsdag. 1926 Zionist Rev. Feb. 127/2 The Second Jewish National Assembly appoints a Vaad Haleumi composed of 38 members. 1965 J. Ch'ên Mao & Chinese Revol. (1967) i. xii. 278 The National Government ordered nation-wide conscription and the convocation of the National Assembly on 12 November 1946. 1991 South Aug. 30/3 Private sector leaders have pulled out..in protest at the Sandinistas' strongarm tactics and the FSLN withdrawal from the National Assembly. b. French History. The first of the revolutionary assemblies of France, in session 1789–91; (occasionally also in later use) the popular assembly. In modern use: one of the two legislative chambers of the French Parliament.After the revolutionary period, the term assemblée nationale largely lapsed from official use. It was revived with the constitution of the Fourth Republic in 1946 and confirmed with the Fifth Republic in 1958. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > other national governing or legislative bodies > [noun] > specifically in France States General1575 national assembly1790 National Convention1792 National Convention1792 Directoire1795 directory1796 tribunate1802 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 58 This..would appear perfectly unaccountable, if we did not consider the composition of the National Assembly . View more context for this quotation 1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 255/2 Mirabeau was now acknowledged as the chief leader in the National Assembly. 1897 M. E. Coleridge King with Two Faces xxxvii. 282 The authority of the King is a mere word to the National Assembly; the National Assembly trembles before Paris; Paris trembles before forty or fifty bandits up at Montmartre. 1968 Encycl. Brit. I. 624A/1 De Gaulle ignored a loi-cadre, laboriously passed by the French National Assembly, which provided for the setting up of regional assemblies in Algeria. 1992 New Scientist 5 Dec. 8/1 The French National Assembly has voted overwhelmingly in favour of a wide-ranging bioethics bill. c. Canadian Politics. The provincial legislature of Quebec, until 1968 called the Legislative Assembly. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > other national governing or legislative bodies > [noun] > in Canada commons1867 Red Chamber1892 national assembly1968 1968 Statute Province Quebec ix. 85/1 The Legislature of Quebec shall consist of the Lieutenant-Governor and the National Assembly of Quebec. 1977 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 9 Mar. 2/4 Until the December minisession, all previous inaugural addresses of the National Assembly were given in both English and French. 1997 Canad. Jrnl. Econ. 30 506 Electricity tariff schedules are proposed by the Crown corporation and are then approved by the government after a public hearing held by a commission of the National Assembly. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1591 |
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