单词 | interregnum |
释义 | interregnumn.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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1579 |
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