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proclamation|prɒkləˈmeɪʃən|
[a. F. proclamation, OF. -acion (1370 in Godefroy Compl.), ad. L. prōclāmātiōn-em, n. of action from prōclāmāre to proclaim.]
1. The action of proclaiming; the official giving of public notice.
[1383Act 7 Rich. II, c. 6 Que chescun Viscont Dengleterre soite tenuz decy en avant en propre persone de faire proclamacion de mesme lestatut quatre foitz lan.] c1420? Lydg. Assembly of Gods 43 Then was there made a proclamasion, In Plutoys name commaundyd silence..That Diana and Neptunus myght haue audience. 1532Cromwell in Merriman Life & Lett. (1902) I. 349 It hathe not ben seen nor herd that any Subiecte..sholde presume to make proclamacion within this your realme but onelie in your graces Name. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. iv. i. 436 The dearest ring in Venice will I giue you, And finde it out by proclamation. a1651Calderwood Hist. Kirk (1843) II. 348 An edict was published by open proclamatioun, that no man sett furth, or read anie of these libells. 1769Burke Pres. St. Nat. Wks. II. 139 The writs are issued... A proper space must be given for proclamation and for the election. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) IX. 655/1 To prevent bigamy and incestuous marriages, the church has introduced proclamation of banns. 1864Bryce Holy Rom. Emp. ix. (1875) 151 Intestine feuds were repressed by the proclamation of a public peace.
b. spec. The public and formal announcement of the accession of a king or ruler; the fact of being proclaimed king.
1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, iv. vii. 70 Sound Trumpet, Edward shal be here proclaim'd: Come, fellow Souldior, make thou proclamation. 1840Thirlwall Greece VII. lix. 329 Plutarch says that his troops received his rival's proclamation with shouts of applause.
c. The action of denouncing by a public notice, or of declaring a person to be outlawed, a thing to be illegal, a district to be under legal restriction, etc.; the fact of being so proclaimed; proscription.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 18 The miraculous working, that God preserued the tables of his couenant from the bloody proclamations of Antiochus. 1605Shakes. Lear v. iii. 183 The bloody proclamation to escape That follow'd me so neere..taught me to shift Into a mad-mans rags. 1881Act 44 & 45 Vict. c. 5 §2 Any such proclamation [of a county or district] may set forth the conditions and regulations under which the carrying or having of arms or ammunition is authorised. 1887Spectator 27 Aug. 1138 The proclamation of the League by the Government under the Crimes Act.
2. That which is proclaimed, either as to its substance or its form; a formal order or intimation issued by the sovereign or other legal authority, and made public either by being announced by a herald, or by being posted up in public places.
In Eng. Hist. applied esp. to decrees issued by the sovereign, in the 16th and 17th centuries, by which it was sought to legislate without the assent of Parliament.
1415Earl of Cambridge in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. I. 45 As for ye forme of a proclamacyon wych schulde hadde bene cryde in ye Erle name, as [t]he heyre to the Corowne of Ynglond ageyns ȝow, my lege lord. 1494Fabyan Chron. vi. ccxvii. 235 The duke..made his proclamacyons & cryes, that no man shulde..do any force to the people. 1545Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 12 Ordourit and furnest eftir the forme and tenour of the proclamationis direct herupon. 1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, i. iii. 17, I heare of none but the new Proclamation, That's clapt vpon the Court Gate. 1671Lady M. Bertie in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 23 They say the King hath put out a Proclamation to forbid maskerades. 1726Swift Gulliver i. i, A proclamation was soon issued to forbid it, upon pain of death. 1832Macaulay Ess., Burghley (1887) 241 She [Elizabeth] assumed the power of legislating by means of proclamations. 1863H. Cox Instit. i. v. 27 Proclamations..are usually issued in pursuance of Orders in Council. 1875Taswell Langmead Eng. Const. Hist. (1890) 398 The King [Henry VIII] then appealed to Parliament to give to his Proclamations the force of statutes. Ibid. 580 [Under Chas. I] In lieu of Acts of Parliament, Royal Proclamations..were issued from time to time and declared to have the force of laws. 1881[see proclaimed 2].
†3. Law.
a. proclamation of a fine: see quot. 1607 and proclaim v. 1 d. Obs.
1483–4Act 1 Rich. III, c. 7 §2 The Iustices of Peas..do make open and solempe proclamacion of the seid fyne in iiij generall Cessions of Peas to be holden the same yere. 1489Act 4 Hen. VII, c. 24. 1588–9 Act 31 Eliz. c. 2. 1607 Cowell Interpr., Proclamation of a Fine, is a notice openly, and solemnly giuen at all the Assises that shall be holden in the Countie within one yeare after the ingrossing of the fine,..and these proclamations be made vpon transcripts of the fine, sent by the Iustices of the Common plees, to the Iustices of Assise, and the Iustices of peace. 1766Blackstone Comm. II. App. 16.
†b. proclamation of rebellion: see quots. Obs.
1607Cowell Interpr., Proclamation of rebellion, is a publike notice given by the officer, that a man not appearing vpon a Sub pœna, nor an attachment in the Starre Chamber or Chauncerie, shalbe reputed a rebell, except he render himselfe by a day assigned. 1670Blount Law Dict. s.v., Proclamation of Rebellion is a Writ so called, whereby publick notice is given, where a Man, not appearing [etc., as above].
†4. transf. Open declaration; manifestation; favourable or unfavourable notice. Obs.
1574Hellowes Gueuara's Fam. Ep. (1577) 153 Vpon that day, that the gentleman doth begin to hourde vp money, from thence foorth, he putteth his fame in proclamation. 1601Shakes. All's Well i. iii. 180 Inuention is asham'd Against the proclamation of thy passion To say thou doost not [love]. 1607Tourneur Rev. Trag. ii. ii, Here a Dame, Cunning, nayles lether-hindges to a dore To auoide proclamation.
5. Comb.: † proclamation-horn, a horn blown to call public attention before making proclamation; proclamation hour, an hour fixed by proclamation for some specified purpose; e.g. for retiring within doors; proclamation money (in N.Amer. Colonies), coin valued according to a table prescribed in a proclamation of Q. Anne on 18 June, 1704, in which the Spanish dollar of 17½ dwt. was to be rated at six shillings in all the colonies; proclamation-print, the type used in a printed proclamation; proclamation writ, a writ directing a proclamation to be made.
1868G. Stephens Runic Mon. I. 321 Neither of these Cornucopiæ, or..Drinking or *Proclamation-Horns, or Horns of Ceremony now exist.
1900Westm. Gaz. 18 Aug. 5/3 Duplessis acknowledged that he had been in the company of Gano and Cordua at night after *proclamation hours.
1735N. Jersey Archives XI. 432, I do hereby promise to Pay to the said Discoverer the Sum of Thirty Pounds, *Proclamation Money. 1748N. Hampshire Prov. Papers (1871) V. 905 His Majesty has recommended that my salary should be fixed and Paid in Sterling or Proclamation money. 1772Chron. in Ann. Reg. 86/1 The general assembly..hath passed a bill for emitting 60,000l. proclamation money, in paper bills of credit. 1775Gouv. Morris in Sparks Life & Writ. (1832) I. 72, 40 shillings each per day, Proclamation money. 1896Hor. White Money & Banking 15–16 Six shillings was considered by the home government a fair average of the various colonial valuations of the Spanish dollar. This valuation came to be known by the term proclamation money, or proc. money.
1592Nashe P. Penilesse Wks. (Grosart) II. 25 The Kitchin..was no bigger than the Cooks roome in a ship, with a little court chimney, about the compasse of a Parenthesis in *proclamation-print.
1863H. Cox Instit. i. iv. 17 The tenor of them [the Acts] was affixed to *proclamation writs, and directed by the sheriffs to be proclaimed as law in their counties.
Hence proclaˈmation v. trans. nonce-wd., to force or coerce by proclamations.
1864Athenæum 8 Oct. 459/2 If religious disputants had been ‘proclamationed’ into silence. |