| 单词 | estates-general |
| 释义 | > as lemmasestates-general b. plural. An assembly of the governing classes or their representatives. estates-general (in France): see States General n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > [noun] > estates of the realm states1399 States General1567 estates1621 placitum1706 1621 Knolles's Gen. Hist. Turkes (ed. 3) 1326 The Estates of the vnited Prouinces..resolued to make a league with the Turke. 1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth ii. 89 The Estates Campe at Rimenant. 1684 Scanderbeg Redivivus iii. 44 The Estates being Assembled in the Castle of Warsaw. 1827 W. Scott Life Napoleon I. iv. 119 The Estates-general of France met at Versailles on the 5th May, 1789. 1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) I. 359 The emperor could come to no agreement with the Estates. 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. II. xv. 163 An assembly of Estates is an organised collection, made by representation or otherwise, of the several orders, states or conditions of men who are recognised as possessing political power. < as lemmas |
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