英语词汇“godfathers-in-law”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. plural. humorous. Jurymen. Also godfathers-in-law. Now rare.

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society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > jury > [noun] > member(s) of jury > returning specific type of verdict

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a1547 Common Pleas Rolls (P.R.O.: CP 40/1106) m. 580 dorso Thowe arte a false knave and hathe had xii god fathers mo than I and that xx of my neyghbours will reporte the same.

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iv. i. 395 In christning shalt thou haue two Godfathers, had I beene iudge, thou shouldst haue had ten more, to bring thee to the gallowes, not to the font.

1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse v. v. 11 in Wks. II Not I, If you be such a one Sir, I will leaue you, To your God-fathers in Law. Let twelue men worke.

a1635 T. Randolph Muses Looking-glasse iv. iv. 79 in Poems (1638) I had rather zee him remitted to the jayle, and haue his twelve God-vathers, good men and true contemne him to the Gallowes.

a1704 T. Brown To Author in Duke of Buckingham Wks. (1705) II. 96 My Twelve blunt Godfathers wou'd soon agree, To doom me, sober, to the fatal Tree.

1881 A. Trumble Slang Dict. Godfathers, jurymen, because they name the degree of crime.

1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 46/1 Godfathers, jurors serving in a felony trial.

单词	godfathers-in-law
释义	> as lemmas godfathers-in-law b. plural. humorous. Jurymen. Also godfathers-in-law. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > jury > [noun] > member(s) of jury > returning specific type of verdict godfathersa1547 a1547 Common Pleas Rolls (P.R.O.: CP 40/1106) m. 580 dorso Thowe arte a false knave and hathe had xii god fathers mo than I and that xx of my neyghbours will reporte the same. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iv. i. 395 In christning shalt thou haue two Godfathers, had I beene iudge, thou shouldst haue had ten more, to bring thee to the gallowes, not to the font. View more context for this quotation 1631 B. Jonson Divell is Asse v. v. 11 in Wks. II Not I, If you be such a one Sir, I will leaue you, To your God-fathers in Law. Let twelue men worke. a1635 T. Randolph Muses Looking-glasse iv. iv. 79 in Poems (1638) I had rather zee him remitted to the jayle, and haue his twelve God-vathers, good men and true contemne him to the Gallowes. a1704 T. Brown To Author in Duke of Buckingham Wks. (1705) II. 96 My Twelve blunt Godfathers wou'd soon agree, To doom me, sober, to the fatal Tree. 1881 A. Trumble Slang Dict. Godfathers, jurymen, because they name the degree of crime. 1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 46/1 Godfathers, jurors serving in a felony trial. extracted from godfathern. < as lemmas
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