单词 | roman-alexandrian |
释义 | > as lemmasRoman-Alexandrian C1. In combination with other adjectives with the sense ‘Roman and ——’, as Roman-Alexandrian, Roman-British, Roman-Dutch, etc. Cf. Romano- comb. form. ΚΠ 1625 P. Heylyn Μικρόκοσμος (rev. ed.) 677 They deliuered vp all their bookes to the censure of the Roman-Spanish Archbishop of Goa. a1732 J. Ayliffe New Pandect Rom. Civil Law (1734) ii. xxiii149 The Electors of the Roman-German Empire. 1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. V. x. viii. 720 The maxim of Roman-Gallic law. 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity II. iv. iii. 55 The gradual expulsion..of the British and Roman British inhabitants. 1901 E. Nicholson Weights & Meas. 44 A weight two-thirds of the Roman-Alexandrian talent. 1957 W. M. Hailey Afr. Surv. (rev. ed.) xxii. 1520 In South Africa ownership of the land is, in accordance with the principles of Roman-Dutch law, held to comprise all values in the land including mineral rights. 2008 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 23 May e. 28 Included [in the exhibition] are Indian ivories, Roman-Egyptian glass vessels, Greek and Greco-Bactrian bronzes and carved stone. < as lemmas |
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