单词 | social science congress |
释义 | > as lemmasSocial Science Congress a. A formal meeting or assembly of delegates or representatives for the discussion or settlement of some question; spec. (in politics) of envoys, deputies, or plenipotentiaries representing sovereign states, or of sovereigns themselves, for the settlement of international affairs. Also an annual or periodical meeting or series of meetings of some association or society, or of persons engaged in special studies, as Social Science Congress, Congress of Orientalists, etc.church congress: see church n.1 and adj. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > types of deliberative or legislative assembly > [noun] > assembly of delegates or representatives congress1678 society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > diplomatic negotiation > congress congress1678 the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > conferring or consulting > a conference > particular types of parliament?a1400 diet1471 symposiac1603 by-conference1625 guestling1629 sanhedrim1653 comitia1684 symposium1784 assembly1794 powwow1812 neighbourhood meeting1823 colloquium1861 congress1861 party conference1875 indaba1894 press conference1908 case conference1913 story conference1920 telemeeting1973 poster session1974 START1981 presser1988 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Congress, is now generally taken for the Assembly or Meeting together of the Deputies, or Plenipotentiaries of several Princes, to treat about a Peace, or any other grand Affair. 1681 in Coll. Scarce & Valuable Tracts (1748) I. 105 (note) The congress in Henry the Second's Time at Clarendon. 1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero II. x. 359 When he was just arrived to the congress. 1777 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip II II. xxiv. 399 It was agreed by the two kings, that a congress should be held at Vervins. 1847 L. H. Kerr tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Servia 323 Deputies..had been sent to Vienna during the Congress. 1861 A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedral of 19th Cent. 4 A lecture delivered at an architectural congress. 1879 M. Arnold Pref. to Wordsworth 21 The haunters of Social Science Congresses. 1883 Harper's Mag. Oct. 309/2 A congress of Americanists recently assembled in Copenhagen. < as lemmas |
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