| 单词 | german empire |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGerman Empire German Empire n. †(a) the Holy Roman Empire; cf. Reich n. 1a (obsolete); (b) an empire in German-speaking central Europe from 1871 to 1918, created by Bismarck after the Franco-Prussian War by the union of twenty-five German states under the King of Prussia; cf. Reich n. 1b (now historical). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > aggregate of sovereign states under one rule > the Holy Roman or German Empire RomeOE empirec1485 German Empire1550 Roman Empire1583 Sacred Empire1617 Holy Roman Empire1698 1550 W. Lynne in tr. J. Carion Thre Bks. Cronicles sig. *.viii This Germaine empire shal decay & faile. 1603 R. Parsons 1st Pt. Treat. Conuersions in Treat. Three Conuersions Eng. I. ii. 391 Partly by malice and emulation of them, that favoured the German Empire against the Pope. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) King of the Romans, in our Age, is a Prince elected, and design'd Successor to the German Empire. 1826 C. Butler Life Grotius 34 We have thus brought down our historical deduction of the German Empire to the accession of the Emperor Charles. 1880 Harper's Mag. June 39/1 From the parallel of the city of Leipsic on the east to the vine-clad valley of the Rhine on the west may be said to lie the most weird, picturesque, and romantic region of the great German Empire. 1949 J. S. Schapiro Liberalism & Challenge of Fascism p. viii The semiautocratic German Empire established by Bismarck prepared the Germans to accept the Nazi dictatorship of Hitler. 2004 Church Times 16 Apr. 20/1 The attempt by Bismarck and the Prussia of the new German Empire after 1871 to bring the Roman Catholic Church under state control. < as lemmas |
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