单词 | to pervert the course of justice |
释义 | > as lemmasto pervert the course of justice a. transitive. To interfere with or distort (a correct order or process); to impede, thwart (justice, etc.). Chiefly Law in later use, esp. in to pervert the course of justice (an indictable offence under common law in the U.K.). ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > leading astray > [verb (transitive)] forteeOE fortihtOE bicharrea1000 perverta1382 faitc1430 perversec1475 seduce1477 seduec1485 seduct1490 wry1563 the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > leading astray > [verb (transitive)] > from justice perverta1382 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Deut. xxvii. 19 Corsed [is he] þat peruerteþ [a1425 L.V. v.r. turneth vniustly; L. pervertit] doom of comylynge, faderlees child, & wedewe. a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) 921 (MED) Þe whelpus signifyen heretycus y-wys, þat wollen..desire To peruert þe lawe, for couetyse. 1483 Rolls of Parl. VI. 240/2 The ordre of all poletique Rule was perverted. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xiii. 10 Thou ceasest not to pervert the strayght wayes off the lorde. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta viii. 181 That will peruert the concoction, and cause the meats to corrupt in the stomack. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 254 The Symetry whereof being causally [perh. read casually] or purposely perverted. 1717 Hist. Rise & Fall Ct. Hotspur 35 He told the Magistrates of the Capital that they perverted Justice. 1783 P. Pott Chirurg. Wks. (new ed.) II. 76 The peristaltic motion of the whole canal is disturbed or perverted. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. vii. 127 Men utterly strange in speech and feeling..perverted the course of justice. 1920 Eng. Hist. Rev. 35 171 The king's thane who takes a bribe to pervert justice has to pay the king's ‘overhernesse’. 1969 MLN 84 707 Hagen the vassal perverts order time and time again by acting according to his own wishes and not those of his master, Gunther. 1994 P. J. Richardson et al. Archbold on Criminal Pleading II. 1087 It is a common law misdemeanour to pervert the course of public justice. < as lemmas |
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