单词 | aldermanic |
释义 | aldermanicadj. Of or relating to an alderman or aldermen; characteristic of an alderman or an alderman's supposed habit of life. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > municipal magistrate > [adjective] > relating to or like alderman aldermanlike1612 aldermanicala1652 aldermanly1728 aldermanic1748 1748 ‘F. Masque’ Let. Under-nobility Dublin 5 Your late most eminent and worthy Representative, the late ✹✹✹✹✹ of Aldermanic Memory. 1770 J. Wilkes Corr. (1805) IV. 32 For fear of growing more dull than usual in this thick aldermanic air. a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III iii, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 240/2 Lunches and snacks so aldermanic. 1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott IV. xli. 166 The feast was..gorgeous; an aldermanic display of turtle and venison. 1878 M. Hay Under the Will I. 47 The aldermanic luxury of turtle soup. 1933 A. G. Macdonell England, their England vii. 117 His movements were less like the spring of a panther than the sideways waddle of an aldermanic penguin. 1954 C. R. Atlee As It Happened vi. 51 I was chosen to fill a vacancy on the Aldermanic bench. 1998 Esquire Apr. 50/2 I don't know how many of you have ever been in an Aldermanic Chamber, but it's not an experience I recommend to the faint of heart. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1748 |
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