单词 | parliamenteer |
释义 | † parliamenteern. Obsolete. 1. British History. A person, esp. a soldier, on the side of Parliament during the English Civil War; = parliamentarian n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > [noun] > supporter of parliament, Cromwell, or commonwealth roundhead1641 parliamentarian1642 parliamenteer1642 parliament man1642 Westminsterian1645 Oliverian1648 parliamentary1649 parliamenterc1650 commonwealth man1651 aproneer1659 Protectorian1659 Protectorist1659 1642 Prince Rupert's Jrnl. 10 Nov. in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1898) 13 731 The Parliamentiers came to treate at Colebrooke. 1643 Prince Rupert's Jrnl. 21 Sept. in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1898) 13 735 The Prince beat the retreating Parliamentiers..3 miles from Newberrye. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 463 He left five sons..who all (one excepted) proved zealous Parliamenteers. 1738 T. Birch Life Milton in J. Milton Wks. I. 84 The very Destroyers of the King (whom the first Parliamentiers call'd Rebels). 1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches I. 192 A Committee of Parliamenteers went with him. 1871 T. Carlyle Cromwell III. vi. 136 ‘Sir John Brown, their Major General’, was once a zealous Parliamenteer. 2. A Member of Parliament; = parliamentarian n. 3. rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > English or British parliament > [noun] > Member of Parliament > skilled member parliamentarian1834 parliamenteer1838 1838 T. Carlyle Coll. Lett. (1985) X. 138 Nobody but a few Parlementeers remain in London. 1893 National Observer 15 Apr. 543/2 Novelist or playwright, painter or parliamenteer. Derivatives parliamenteership n. Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > English or British parliament > [noun] > Member of Parliament > condition or position of MP-ship1832 parliamenteership1841 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes vi. 379 If my Protectorship is nothing, what in the name of wonder is your Parliamenteership..? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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