| 单词 | pretermitted | 
| 释义 | pretermittedadj. 1.  Passed by, disregarded, overlooked; omitted. Originally in   pretermitted custom n. now historical and rare a tax on the export of cloth, levied from 1618 to 1640 to correct the disparity between taxation rates on the cloth and wool trades. ΚΠ 1619    J. Chamberlain Let. 10 Aug. 		(1939)	 II. 258  				Our marchants complaine likewise of these new impositions upon cloth under the name of pretermitted custom. 1651    A. Weldon Court of King Charles 196  				He hath Pensions out of the pretermitted Customs. a1661    T. Fuller Worthies 		(1662)	 Chesh. 184  				Cheshire is one of the 12. pretermitted Counties, the Names of whose Gentry were not returned into the Tower, in the 12. year of K. Henry the Sixth. 1727    in  6th Rep. Deputy Keeper App.  ii. 118  				The Office of Comptroller of the Petty and of the Pretermitted Customs..in the Port of London. 1842    A. T. de Vere Song of Faith 30  				Obedience proved, the pretermitted rite Pauses, and lo! in the near boscage snared, The doomed ram struggles with entangled horn. 1996    D. Parker State & Class in Ancien Régime France vii. 245  				The Solicitor General had attempted to use the Jacobean Act of Tonnage and Poundage as statutory authority for impositions and for the pretermitted custom. 2002    Advocate 		(Baton Rouge, Louisiana)	 		(Nexis)	 1 Nov. 4 b  				First Assistant District Attorney Frank Trosclair said pretermitted decisions by a grand jury indicate the jurors either feel there is not sufficient evidence to prosecute Mason or return a not true bill on the forcible rape charge.  2.  U.S. Law. Of a descendant or natural heir of a testator: not mentioned in a will. Cf. preterition n. 5. rare. ΚΠ 1875    E. Poste in  tr.  Gaius Elem. Rom. Law 		(ed. 2)	  ii. Comm. 224  				The existence of a pretermitted suus heres..was alone important. 1965    Tri City Herald 		(Pasco, Washington)	 		(Electronic text)	 15 Mar.  				You are required to name each child in your will to prove that you had not forgotten him or her when you made the will. If you do not name a child in your will, he is a ‘pretermitted’ child and will be entitled to take the same share of your property that he would have been entitled to if you made no will. 2003    Texas Lawyer 		(Nexis)	 8 Sept. 200  				An adult child adopted after execution of a will naming her as the beneficiary of a specific bequest is not a pretermitted child for purposes of Texas Probate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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