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单词 demurrer
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demurrern.1

/dɪˈmʌrə/
Forms: Also (1500s demurrour), 1600s demourer.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman demurrer = Old French demourer , present infinitive (see demur v.) used as noun: compare refresher, user.
1.
a. Law. A pleading which, admitting for the moment the facts as stated in the opponent's pleading, denies that he is legally entitled to relief, and thus stops the action until this point be determined by the court.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > pleading > [noun] > a pleading or plea > demurrer
demurrer1547
demura1575
demurring1593
1547 Act 1 Edw. VI c. 7 §1 The Process, Pleas, Demurrers and Continuances in every Action.
1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum ii. xiii. 56 If the question be of the lawe, that is, if both the parties doe agree vpon the fact, and each doe claime that by lawe he ought to haue it..then it is called a demurrer in lawe.
1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 107 If you demur to the Jurisdiction of this Court, I must let you know that the Court doth over-rule your demurrer.
1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams I. vi. 119 By affidavits, motions, pleas, demurrers, flaws and appeals, to protract the question from term to term and from court to court.
1809 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. (at cited word) Demurrers are general, without shewing any particular causes; or special, where the causes of demurrer are particularly set down.
1861 T. E. May Constit. Hist. Eng. (1863) II. x. 230 He pleaded Not Guilty to the first fourteen counts, and put in demurrers to the others.
1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic ix. 299 A Demurrer has been happily explained to be equivalent to the remark ‘Well, what of that?’
b. transferred. An objection raised or exception taken to anything; = demur n. 3.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > statement > objection > [noun] > an objection
objectionc1410
objecta1425
challenge1530
quarrel1579
demurrer1598
demurral1808
1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie ii. vii. sig. F3v Slow-pac'd dilatory pleas, Demure demurrers, still striuing to appease Hote zealous loue.
1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. (ed. 6) ii. 45 This reply is met by the demurrer that it is beside the question.
2. A pause, stand-still; a state of hesitation or irresolution; = demur n. 2. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > [noun] > irresolute or vacillating person
demurrer1533
hanger1536
staggerer1552
hobbler1575
tennis ball1589
waverer1597
halter1608
suspender1625
waver1667
fluttererc1726
oscillator1798
pendulum1818
shilly-shallyer1832
shilly-shally1834
wobbler1837
hesitater1853
dilly-dallier1880
vacillator1890
haverer1947
1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance i. vii. f. xlvv The mater is at a demurrour in thys poynt, and we at your iugement.
1627 Ld. Falkland Hist. Edward II (1680) 42 The greenness of the Disgrace kept him in a long demurrer.
1645 G. Wither Vox Pacifica 93 Not well discerning whether Griefe, Shame, or Anger, that demurrer caus'd.
3. = demurrage n. 2a. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > compensation > [noun] > for delay of vessel or railway truck
demurrer1622
demurrage1641
1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 117 If the Master doe not stay out all his daies of demourer agreed vpon by the charterpartie of fraightment.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

demurrern.2

/dɪˈməːrə/
Etymology: < demur v. + -er suffix1.
One who demurs.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > statement > objection > [noun] > one who objects
quarrellera1500
objectionist1607
objecter1609
objector1617
discrutatora1627
excepter1639
exceptora1641
exceptioner1641
objectator1656
exceptionist1689
exceptant1697
demurrer1711
objectioner1799
objicient1864
objectant1906
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 89. ¶1 I shall distinguish this Sect of Women by the Title of Demurrers.
1745 E. Young Consolation 68 And is Lorenzo a Demurrer still?
1812 Examiner 7 Sept. 565/1 It is..customary..to hear the demurrer's reasons.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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