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单词 deodand
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deodandn.

/ˈdiːəʊdand/
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman deodande, < medieval (Anglo-)Latin deōdandum, i.e. Deō dandum that is to be given to God.
a. A thing forfeited or to be given to God; spec. in English Law, a personal chattel which, having been the immediate occasion of the death of a human being, was given to God as an expiatory offering, i.e. forfeited to the Crown to be applied to pious uses, e.g. to be distributed in alms. (Abolished in 1846.)
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1292 Britton i. ii. §14 Volums ausi qe le vessel et quant qe leynz serra trové soit prisé cum deodande et enroule par le Corouner.]
1523 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 34 The..Chauncelor..shall have deodands.
1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iii, in Wks. 235/2 The kynges almoygners, to whome the goodes of such men as kyll themselfe be appoynted by the lawe..as deodandes to be geuen in almes.
1613 H. Finch Law (1636) 214 If a man being vpon a Cart carrying Faggots..fall downe by the moouing of one of the horses in the Cart, and die of it; both that and all the other horses in the Cart, and the Cart it selfe, are forfeit. And these are called Deodands.
1627 R. Boyle Diary (1886) II. 222 [A] boat..being forfeicted to me for a deodant.
1705 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft 33 The Sinners did bequeath these Estates,..to Ecclesiastical Locusts and Caterpillars, calling them Deodands, or given to God; that's the Priest-craft Word.
1755 Gentleman's Mag. May 232/2 The inquest..brought in their verdict accidental death by an ox, and found the ox a deodand.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 302 If a man falls from a boat or ship in fresh water, and is drowned, it hath been said, that the vessel and cargo are in strictness of law a deodand.
1827 Gentleman's Mag. 97 ii. 13 Apprehensive that the diamonds, if they entered the church, might be claimed as a deodand to the altar.
1845 H. J. Stephen New Comm. Laws Eng. II. 551.
1882 Times 3 Aug. 7/4 Deodands are also things of the past.
b. loosely. The amount to be forfeited as the value of a deodand.
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1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son I. 58 The master without appealing to me, laid a deodand on the gun.
1838 Mechanics' Mag. 29 368 The jury levy a deodand of £1500, upon the boiler or steam engine of the Victoria.
1842 Mechanics' Mag. 36 6 Deodand after deodand has been imposed by honest and indignant juries.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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