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单词 interregnum
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interregnumn.

/ɪntəˈrɛɡnəm/
Forms: Plural interregna, interregnums.
Etymology: Latin, < inter (inter- prefix 2a) + regnum reign n.; compare interreign n.
1. Temporary authority or rule exercised during a vacancy of the throne or a suspension of the usual government. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > temporary rule in vacancy > [noun]
interreign1533
interregnum1579
interregency1600
space-government1600
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 67 The Romaines call this manner of regiment in vacation, Interregnum: as you would saye, rule for the time.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. i. 13 The governement upon this occasion was (as is still at this day) called Interregnum. [Margin] The Interregencie.
1641 E. Dering Coll. Speeches on Relig. 21 June (1642) ix. D iv b As one government goes out, I could see another come in, and that without an Interregnum of Commissioners.
1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1879) I. 69/2 This occasional administration the Romans call an Interregnum.
2. The interval between the close of a king's reign and the accession of his successor; any period during which a state is left without a ruler or with a merely provisional government.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > temporary rule in vacancy > [noun] > period of
interregnum1590
society > authority > lack of power > [noun] > (period of) suspension of ruling power > in a state
interreign1587
interregnum1590
1590 L. Lloyd Consent of Time 31 The Hebrewes had none to gouerne them 8 yeeres after (so long inter regnum continued).
1649 F. Roberts Clavis Bibliorum (ed. 2) 228 There was an Inter-regnum or vacancie of the Royal seat in Judah.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) In Hereditary Kingdoms there are no Interregnums.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. xviii. 470 The king..is made a corporation to prevent in general the possibility of an interregnum or vacancy of the throne.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. I. xxvi. 397 Such a risk of interregna is incidental to all systems monarchic or republican, which make the executive head elective.
3. A cessation or suspension of the usual ruling power; a period of freedom from some authority. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > lack of power > [noun] > (period of) suspension of ruling power
interregnum1648
1648 W. Jenkyn Ὁδηγος Τυϕλος To Rdr. sig. A2v All that time was an interregnum of his reason.
1656 A. Cowley Misc. 23 in Poems Thousand worse Passions then possest The Interregnum of my brest. Bless me from such an Anarchy.
1832 G. C. Lewis Remarks Use & Abuse Polit. Terms v. 38 A day's interregnum of lawlessness—during which the Sovereign slept.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. ii. viii. 153 They were at the moment enjoying a sort of interregnum from Roman authority.
4. A breach of continuity; an interval, pause, vacant space.
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the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time > period of time between events or interval
waya1300
distancec1330
interstition1390
spacea1400
pastimea1513
vacance1533
intermission?1566
vacation1567
intervallum1574
interim1579
between-timea1586
wem1599
parenthesis1600
intermedium1611
betweena1616
fore-while?1615
interpolation1615
vacancya1616
interval1616
interstitium1624
slatcha1625
interspace1629
intermissa1633
between-spacea1641
interregnum1659
intervalea1661
interlapse1666
interlude1751
in-between1815
lapse1817
intermezzo1851
meanwhile1872
the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > [noun] > a temporary cessation of activity or operation
pause1440
trip1584
interpause1595
wem1599
stand1602
vacation1617
interspiration1623
intercisiona1631
interregnum1659
lapse1838
shutdown1857
break1878
slip1898
seventh-inning stretch1915
standoff1918
1659 T. Pecke Parnassi Puerperium 30 But all the Inter~regnum, she was chaste: Yet not for vertue's Love, but her own sake.
1750 H. Walpole Lett. to H. Mann 19 Nov. Such is the Interregnum of our politics!
1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Disowned I. xvi. 256 One could be merry till bed-time without an interregnum.
1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) xvi. §699 The coming of this interregnum which they call the changing of the monsoons.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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