| 单词 | crown day | 
| 释义 | > as lemmascrown day   crown day  n. 		 †(a) a coronation day (obsolete);		 (b) a day on which a king, emperor, or pope is present in person, wearing his crown (now historical);		 (c) (in Ireland) a Quarter Sessions day set aside for criminal cases, appeals, and some civil cases such as licensing applications. ΚΠ 1609    T. Heywood Troia Britanica  xvi. xcii. 432  				He..his neere Neece upon his Crowne-day rauisht. 1711    J. Bingham Origines Ecclesiasticæ III.  viii. v. 163  				Some Festivals among them were..called Crown Days,..because the Emperors were used to go in their Regalia to the great Church of Sancta Sophia. 1807    T. Johnes tr.  J. de Joinville Mem. Hist. Louis IX II.  iii. 73  				Eadmer..calls these festivals ‘the king's crown days’, because he then wore his crown. 1860    W. Gibson Year of Grace xiv. 273  				The assistant barrister has almost nothing to do on the Crown day. 1889    F. M. Nichols tr.  Marvels of Rome 163  				In the entry of the basilica of Saint Zacchary Pope, after receiving the lauds of the cardinals and judges, as in other crown-days, he..is received by the Primicerius. 1933    Donegal News 29 Apr. 7/1  				‘Crown Day’ at the Quarter Sessions here used to be a regular feast of oratory. 1953    Western Polit. Q. 6 636  				The bemused wanderer, if he went to court on a crown-day and stood in the presence of God's representative on earth, would surely have to ask a bystander whether it was the true ruler of the world he beheld. 1979    Irish Law Times & Solicitors' Jrnl. 6 Jan. 10  				Preliminary Crown Day and Appeals from Magistrates' Courts Mon. 29 January Mon. 11 June (for Appeals only) [etc.]. < as lemmas  | 
	
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