| 单词 | blank charter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblank charter blank charter n. a document given to the agents of the crown in Richard II.'s reign, with power to fill it up as they pleased; hence figurative liberty to do as one likes. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > [noun] > document conferring right or privilege > to be filled in at choice blank charter1398 society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > freedom of action or from restraint > [noun] > scope or free opportunity roomeOE leisure1303 libertyc1425 free chase1467 scope1534 roomtha1540 swinge1542 swing1584 blank charter1593 freedom1623 field1639 play1641 free agencya1646 range1793 expatiationa1848 leaveway1890 open slather1919 headroom1932 1398 Hist. Croyland. Cont. in Rer. Angl. Script. Vet. (1684) I. 493 Quadam alba charta vocata Blankechartre..quod utique Regis Richardi in posterum causa exitii magna fuit. 1593 J. Donne Satires iii That God hath with his hand Sign'd kings blank-charters, to kill whom they hate. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. iv. 47 Our substitutes at home shall haue blanke charters . View more context for this quotation < as lemmas |
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