单词 | revocatory |
释义 | revocatoryadj.n. A. adj. Relating to or expressive of revocation; that revokes someone or something; esp. that annuls a will. revocatory letter (formerly also † letter revocatory): a document recalling a cleric or other official to his or her original post. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > [adjective] revocatory?a1475 reversal1619 abolitionary1823 society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > letters recalling ambassadors revocatory letter?a1475 letters of revocation1645 society > law > rule of law > illegality > [adjective] > legally invalid or faulty > annulling or abrogating cassing1550 revocatory1590 irritant1592 rescissory1606 nullifying1640 repealing1648 rescissorian1658 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1879) VII. 405 (MED) Diverse of those monkes..purchasede letters revocatory [L. litteras provocatorias, v.r. revocatorias] of the pope; and so alle monkes, viij excepte, returnede to theire monastery where thei were afore. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1034/1 The King..directed his letters reuocatory into euery Countie. 1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes vii. f. 267 The force and effect of these clauses derogatorie, and reuocatorie. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xii. 574/1 To these reuocatorie lines King Edward made this wise and noble answere. 1657 J. Spencer Questions Resol. Unlearned Protestants 39 If it were supposed, that any such revocatorie definition should issue from them, that party..would accuse that Councell of errour. 1700 J. Tyrrell Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 899 The Pope..sent his Revocatory Letters to him. 1744 J. Mottley Hist. Life & Reign Empress Catharine II. iv. 302 Forcing the King to sign the following revocatory Diploma. 1853 Law Mag. 50 103 The codicil was not only revocatory but dispositive, and had the effect of revoking all other testamentary instruments. 1878 F. A. Kemble Rec. Girlhood II. i. 33 Upon this view of her epistle,..she would (instead of rewriting it) tack on to it..a sort of revocatory codicil, in the shape of a postscript. 1915 Univ. of Pennsylvania Law Rev. 64 219 In most states a prior will is revoked by the execution of a second, even though it never becomes active as a will, if the later contains an express revocatory clause. 1965 Times (San Mateo, Calif.) 9 June ii. 45/7 The preponderance of the evidence gives rise to the inference of destruction of the instrument by the testator with revocatory intent. 2007 T. Clarke Internat. Corporate Governance 386/1 Parmalat was seeking €7.5 billion in revocatory claims against 50 Italian and foreign banks. Chiefly Ecclesiastical Law. A revocation. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > [noun] revoking1395 revocationc1400 cassationc1425 annulling1449 reclamationa1475 annulmenta1492 retractation1531 disannulling1533 abrogation1535 cancellation1535 retraction1536 extinguishment1537 undoing1540 abrenunciation1557 revocating1570 reversement1572 revokement1573 annihilation1579 revocatory1579 annullity1586 retroversion1587 rescission1594 recall1597 recision1606 disannulment1611 repeal1612 rasurea1616 cancelment1621 retractinga1624 cancelling1631 extinction1651 circumduction1726 cassing1844 recallment1845 cancel1884 1579 G. Gilpin tr. P. van Marnix van Sant Aldegonde Bee Hiue of Romishe Church vi. iv. f. 312 They know what notable gaine they yerelie put vp by their boxes for all the pardons, dispensiues,..Conseruatories, Reuocatories [Du. Wederroepinghen], Reductions, Exemptions [etc.]. 1637 Abp. J. Williams Holy Table 66 Our reverend Archbishops and Bishops here in England had a power (in Synod) to make Declaratories and Revocatories of their Common Law. 1867 E. Huff in O. Shipley Church & World 138 Neither the Synod of Capetown nor of Canterbury can introduce any new matter for Ecclesiastical Law. It can only pass declaratories, and not revocatories of the old law. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.?a1475 |
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