| 单词 | to possess or have the initiative |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto possess or have the initiative a. The power, right, or function of initiating or originating something. Hence to possess or have the initiative. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > [noun] > initiative or power of initiating initiative1793 1793 W. Godwin Enq. Polit. Justice i. vii. 53 Sensation is of some moment in the affair. It possesses the initiative. 1793 W. Godwin Enq. Polit. Justice v. xx. 544 The legislative assembly, whether it possesses the initiative, or a power of control only, in executive affairs. 1802 Morning Chron. in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1803) VI. 302 If..Mr. Henry Addington is to have the initiative in the Docks. 1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 599/2 That branch of the legislature to which belongs of right the power to propose measures of a particular class is said to have the initiative with respect to those measures. 1844 C. J. Lever Tom Burke II. lv. 47 The initiative lay with you. < as lemmas |
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