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单词 fathers conscript
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fathers conscript
a. Enrolled or elected as a member of the ancient Roman senate. In later use also occasionally: enrolled or elected as a member of the Venetian senate. Usually in conscript fathers, †fathers conscript (also with capital initials) [after classical Latin patres conscrīptī, properly patres, conscrīptī, i.e. patres et conscrīptī fathers and elect; compare Middle French peres conscrips (mid 14th cent.)] : (a title of respect for) Roman or Venetian senators collectively. Cf. father n. 5a. historical.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > [noun] > member of > collectively
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > other national governing or legislative bodies > [noun] > in ancient world > in ancient Rome > member of > collectively
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1445 tr. Claudian's De Consulatu Stilichonis in Anglia (1905) 28 281 (MED) The volume of Rome which conscript fadris shewith.
1481 tr. Cicero De Senectute (Caxton) sig. a4v Afore the day of his deth, whan he departed oute of the senate, he was conduyted and accompanyed home with the faders conscript [L. a patribus conscriptis,].
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) xi. f. 136 He sayd these wordes, O fathers conscripte, O happy people.
1605 B. Jonson Sejanus iii. i. 28 Fathers conscript may this our present meeting Turne faire, and fortunate to the common wealth. View more context for this quotation
1647 H. Neville Parl. of Ladies (Wing N512A) sig. B4 These Parliamenters..rapping at the doore where the Conscript Fathers were then in Councell.
1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives I. 58 At first..they were called Fathers only; but afterwards, when more were enrolled in their body, Conscript Fathers.
1780 C. Anstey Speculation 31 Like the Conscript Sires..Grave senators in Council deep Their amicable Vigils keep.
1817 G. Young Observ. Hist., Polit., & Metaphysical Questions iii. 90 The election of the 100 conscript senators admitted on the expulsion of Tarquin.
1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) v. i. 143 Say, conscript fathers, shall she be admitted?
1860 tr. in W. C. Hazlitt Hist. Venetian Republic IV. xxii. 56 Many resolutions have been proposed, Conscript Fathers, which, being of a contradictory kind, breed confusion, and tend to mislead our judgment.
1932 Classical Jrnl. 28 168 If the conscript fathers had little confidence in the men in office, they might prefer to let things take their course.
1970 R. E. A. Palmer Archaic Community Romans 268 The conscript pedarii entered the senate which had previously comprised Fathers and patrician adlecti drawn from the equestrian ranks.
2011 Classical Antiq. 30 48 We may imagine how little the conscript fathers enjoyed being addressed by their emperor as ‘the fortunate Commodian senate’.
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