单词 | outlawing |
释义 | outlawingn. Law. Now historical. The action or process of putting a person outside the law; outlawry. Also: the action or process of making something illegal; proscribing, banning. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > outlawry > [noun] outlawingc1300 outlawa1382 outlawrya1400 utlagary1440 c1300 St. John Evangelist (Laud) 84 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 404 (MED) Seint Iones pays was sone i-cried and alle oþeres also Þat weren þoruȝ þe Aumperour in outlawingue ido. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 219 Man..fel..out of his owne londe..in to outlawynge [?a1475 anon. tr. exile; L. exilium]. a1425 (a1382) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) Josh. Prol. 556 We han demed..to turnen aȝen to the now long laft werk, as bi a maner turnynge aȝen after outlawynge. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 935 The greatest..difference that fell out betwene them, was about the outlawing of Cicero. 1658 Practick Part of Law (ed. 5) 2 The clark of the Supersedeas, who makes Writs to supersede the Outlawing of persons. 1853 Harper's Mag. May 848/2 In extensive grounds, subject to nice cultivation, the outlawing may be advisable. 1890 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 19 107 The younger child never succeeds in preference to the elder, unless there is some shameful incompetency or outlawing against the latter. 1920 T. S. Cairncross Northern Numbers 52 The Roman Road all empty, By death's stern sure outlawing. 1970 D. M. Hart in L. E. Sweet Peoples & Culture of Middle East II. 9 The outlawing of feuds and the extension of the Shari‘a to all aspects of Rifian legal life. 1993 M. K. Lawson Cnut (BNC) 92 The outlawing of Earl Thorkell of East Anglia on 11 November is his [sc. Cnut's] sole recorded action of 1021. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1300 |
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