Rigsdagn.
/ˈrɪɡzdɑːɡ/, /ˈrɪɡzdaɡ/, U.S. /ˈrɪɡzˌdɑɡ/ Now historical.
(The name of) the legislature of Denmark between 1849 and 1953, a body which consisted of two chambers, the Landsting and the Folketing.Under a new constitution approved by referendum in 1953 the Rigsdag and the Landsting were replaced by a unicameral legislature called the Folketing.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > other national governing or legislative bodies > [noun] > in Denmark
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1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ vi. i. 1 He was at Rensburgh,..at a Richsdagh an Assembly that corresponds our Parliament.]
1849 New Monthly Mag. June 233 To this synod is to be submitted all projects of laws relative to church matters, before the diet (Rigsdag) invests them with the power of law.
1883 Students' Encycl. II. 368/1 D[enmark] is governed by a hereditary monarchy, and by a National Assembly or Rigsdag.
1938 J. H. S. Birch Denmark in Hist. xx. 337 The Constitution provided for two Assemblies, the Folketing and the Landsting. The Rigsdag, which comprised the two Assemblies and was to meet annually, exercised jointly with the King legislative power and the right of imposing taxes.
1972 S. Oakley Story of Denmark xiii. 178 The new ministry put forward a very liberal project..which envisaged a Rigsdag of two houses, both elected by universal male suffrage.
2002 D. J. Sturdy Fractured Europe vi. 216 The king needed the consent of the Rigsdag before introducing taxation or undertaking major policy initiatives.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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