| 单词 | albany convention |
| 释义 | > as lemmasAlbany Convention (a) In a general sense (see 4): applied to several assemblies of historic note, as the Convention of Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts organized early in the 18th cent.; the Albany Convention of 1754, the first movement of the colonies towards concerted action; the American Convention of Abolitionists, founded in 1793; the Hartford Convention of 1814, with a view to the possible division of the Union, etc.; joint convention: the meeting in one body of both branches of Congress or of a State legislature. ΚΠ 1754 Franklin in Wks. (1887) II. 355 Plan of Union Adopted by the Convention at Albany. 1793 Mem. Pennsylv. Soc. for Abol. Slavery 41 That the Society..will appoint Delegates to the proposed Convention, provided a majority of the Abolition Societies in the United States do agree. 1814 Niles' Reg. 12 Nov. 155 Against the resolution proposing a convention of delegates from the New-England States [at Hartford] and the resolutions connected therewith. 1865 N.Y. Nation 14 Sept. 330 If the Englishman can initiate no public enterprise without a public dinner, the American is equally helpless until he has called a convention. 1881 J. Winsor Mem. Hist. Boston II. 224 The ‘Convention of Congregational Ministers’ was organized. In 1720 they ‘Voted’, etc. 1891 Boston Jrnl. 13 Nov. 9/1 The great national convention of the Women's Christian Temperance Union opened in Tremont Temple this morning. < as lemmas |
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