| 单词 | convention parliament |
| 释义 | > as lemmasconvention parliament convention parliament n. (see 5a). convention parliament a. English History. Applied to certain extraordinary assemblies of the Houses of Parliament, without the summons of the Sovereign; viz. that of 1660, which restored Charles II, and that of 1688, which declared the throne abdicated by James II. Hence convention parliament, a parliament constituted of such a convention. ΚΠ 1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 52 That none of us do own that Convention, whatsoever it be, to be the Parliament of England. 1688 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 612 'Til a Convention of Lords & Commons should meete in full body. 1689 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 616 The greate Convention being assembled the day before..Resolved that K. Jam: 2d,..had by demise, abdicated himselfe. 1689 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 645 The Convention (or Parliament as some called it) sitting. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xi. 184 Charles now dissolved the convention parliament. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ix. viii. 675 In 1689, the Convention declared itself a Parliament. < as lemmas |
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