| 单词 | pain fort and dure |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspain fort and dure ΚΠ 1531 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student (new ed.) xli. f. cv He shall haue peyn [1532 payne] forte & dure. 1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes ii. f. 54 If he be indited at the Princes suite, and so beeing arraigned vpon that inditement will not answer, but standeth mute or dumbe, whereupon he is to receiue paine (as it is tearmed) Forte & Dure, and bee pressed to death. a1634 E. Coke 2nd Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. (1642) 179 This Act [sc. Statute of Westminster I, c.12] describeth what persons shall be punished by Paine fort & dure.., but setteth not downe..what the punishment is. 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Pain fort & dure, signifying in Common Law, an especial punishment for those that being arraigned of felony refuse to put themselves upon the ordinary trial of God and the Country, and thereby are mute and dumb.] < as lemmas |
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