单词 | doomster |
释义 | doomstern. 1. A judge, doomer. archaic. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > judge > [noun] demec825 doomerc888 deemerc950 demendOE doomsmana1200 dempstera1300 trierc1330 judgec1384 dooma1400 judge manc1410 knower?c1425 doomsterc1450 jurist1481 righter1566 tribune1587 syndicator1610 deemster1795 squire1817 judge-carl1818 c1450 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (BL Add. 36983) p. 1667 Fadir, Rightwis domstere! 1861 J. R. Lowell Poet. Wks. (1890) IV. 4 Then let him hearken for the doomster's feet! 1882 Sat. Rev. 11 Nov. 627 Doomsters..propounding their own construction of rubrical niceties with Sinaitic thunders. 2. In a Scottish court of law, the official (usually the executioner) who formerly read or repeated the sentence; = dempster n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > an officer of the court > [noun] > other court officials Master of Request1548 Master of Request1560 doomster1609 seal1658 taxing-master1848 1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 158 The Domster sould be sworne. a1640 T. Jackson Exact Coll. Wks. (1654) 3267 They will..be enforced to borrow a more fit expression of his Office from our Sister-Nation, and instyle him to be the Doomester or Doomesman of the Quick and of the Dead. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 137 ‘Doomster,’ he continued, ‘repeat the sentence to the prisoner.’ 1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) at Doom The doom or sentence was..pronounced by the public executioner, or doomster as he was called—a barbarous practice, which was abolished by Act of Adjournal, 16th March 1773. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1450 |
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