单词 | séance royale |
释义 | > as lemmasséance royale 1. gen. A sitting of a deliberative or administrative body (esp. of a learned society), or of a number of persons assembled for discussion, or instruction by a lecturer, or the like. Also séance royale, a royal audience. Loosely (chiefly U.S.), a meeting or discussion. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > [noun] > occasion of hearing audience1426 séance royale1789 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > [noun] > sitting of sittingc1410 session1444 access1587 diet1587 session1613 sederunt1628 seat1635 séance1789 the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > topic of or subject for conversation or gossip > discussion debate1393 revolutionc1425 treatingc1450 disputation1489 debatement1536 debating1548 discuss1571 discussion1598 reasoning1611 entertainment1625 ventilationa1631 ventilating1660 discussal1809 skull session1959 séance1962 1789 A. Young Jrnl. 20 June in Trav. France (1792) i. 115 A message from the King.., that he should meet them on Monday; and, under pretence of preparing the hall for the seance royale, the French guards were placed..to prevent any of the deputies entering the room. 1803 C. Lamb Let. 23 Apr. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1976) II. 60 Your seances & conversationis, which I have a shrewd suspicion must be something dull. 1884 Kendal Mercury 3 Oct. 5/3 The British Association..should be a..secret conclave, and every one attending its seances for reporterial purposes deserves to have his ears cropped. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 613 Come, he counselled, to close the séance. 1934 E. Pound Eleven New Cantos xxxiv. 16 At the Seance Royale last Thursday he had talked of His death in defence of the country. 1962 W. Schirra in J. Glenn et al. Into Orbit 32 We would lock ourselves up in our office at Langley until we had a solution that satisfied us all... We called a session like this a ‘seance’. 1977 Time 17 Jan. 41/1 For an hour most nights, he conducts a long-distance séance (at $3 a minute) with..his Australian proconsul, from the..desk in his study. < as lemmas |
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