| 单词 | prisoner at the bar |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprisoner at the bar prisoner at the bar n. a person in custody on a criminal charge, and on trial in a court of justice. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > awaiting trial or held in custody prisoner at the bar1556 détenu1803 detainee1928 chummy1948 undertrial1966 1556 J. Ponet Shorte Treat. Politike Power sig. Fv Her will is furthewith satisfied, matier ynough against Naboth prisoner at the Barre. 1595 W. Burton Rowsing of Sluggard vi. 107 And being conuicted, haue all cryed like the prisoner at the barre, O my Lord be good vnto me now, and I will neuer do the like againe. 1620 T. Cooper Cry & Reuenge of Blood vi. 52 You Prisoners at the barre, whose liues now stand wayting vpon death, as you looke vp to vs with feare, so wee looke downe vpon you with sorrow. 1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 132 When this Pickthank had told his tale, the Judge directed his speech to the Prisoner at the Bar . View more context for this quotation 1758 in T. B. Howell State Trials (1813) XIX. 1369 I have often received from the prisoner at the bar letters of a post-night to carry to the office in Lombard-street. 1770 Trial W. Wemms 8 Clerk. Gentlemen of the Jury. Upon each and every of these several indictments, the prisoners at the bar have been arraigned, and upon their arraignment have pleaded not guilty. 1874 A. Trollope Phineas Redux II. xxvii. 216 In this case it might not improbably seem to them that the gentleman who had so long stood before them as a prisoner at the bar had been the victim of a most singularly untoward chain of circumstances. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 309 They should well and truly try and true deliverance make in the issue joined between their sovereign lord the king and the prisoner at the bar. 1990 Toronto Star (Nexis) 16 Dec. d6 ‘I didn't refuse to blow, Your Honor,’ declared the prisoner at the bar. ‘I couldn't blow.’ < as lemmas |
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