单词 | ferae naturae |
释义 | ferae naturaen. Animals living in a wild state, undomesticated animals. Also as quasi-adj. and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > undomesticated wild beastc1325 ferae naturaea1661 a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Herts. 21 Such who object that heads of Stagges, had been more proper for her, the Goddesse of the Game, may first satisfie us, Whether any Creatures feræ Naturæ (as which they could not certainly compass at all seasons) were usually offered for Sacrifices. 1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love iv. 61 Women are not compris'd in our Laws of friendship: they are feræ naturæ. 1873 C. M. Yonge Pillars of House IV. xxxv. 5 He evidently viewed himself as the Underwood who alone could do his duty by the feræ naturæ of the estate. 1897 E. A. Bartlett Battlefields of Thessaly xiii. 302 The weapons had been fairly purchased by us from the Arnauts, who had found them abandoned, in fact as feræ naturæ. 1959 Earl Jowitt & C. Walsh Dict. Eng. Law I. 120 At common law animals feræ naturæ which are fit for human food are the subject of larceny if they either are in confinement or have actually been tamed; but at common law there can be no larceny of such animals as a lion or a gorilla, even though they are tame or kept in confinement. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.a1661 |
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