单词 | imprescriptible |
释义 | imprescriptibleadj. Not subject to prescription; that cannot in any circumstances be legally taken away or abandoned; esp. in imprescriptible right(s. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > [adjective] > founded on prescription > not removable imprescriptible1570 indelible1645 unbarrable1805 imprescribable1887 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 451/2 Neither is this alwayes true, that thys lawe is inprescriptible. 1671 F. Philipps Regale Necessarium 305 Those things which were granted or given in signe of subjection are impræscriptible. 1791 T. Paine Rights of Man i. 111 The natural and imprescriptible rights of man..are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression. 1884 W. J. Courthope Addison i. 3 The author of any ideal creation..has an imprescriptible property in the fame of his work. Derivatives impreˈscriptibly adv. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > [adverb] > by prescription > irremovably imprescriptibly1807 1807 W. Coxe Hist. House of Austria Imprescriptibly vested in the church. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.1570 |
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