单词 | ispravnik |
释义 | ispravnikn. Historical. A chief of police in a rural district in Tsarist Russia. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman > head of police force > foreign commissaire1386 pristav1568 kotwal1582 provost marshal1619 commissary1787 police-master1798 thanadar1802 quaestor1862 ispravnik1886 1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 70/2 The organs of the central government..are..the stanovoys and ispravniks (chiefs of the police) in the districts. 1898 J. Y. Simpson Side-lights on Siberia 90 The ispravnik of the district happened to be in the village. 1906 Daily Chron. 24 Aug. 5/6 The police informed the ispravnik (chief of rural police). 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 876/1 As organs of the central government there are further, the ispravniki, chiefs of police in the districts into which the governments are divided. 1952 H. Altschuler tr. M. Gorky Artamonovs i. 156 The ispravnik shook a threatening finger, and shouted: ‘Hush, fool!’ 1967 H. Seton-Watson Russ. Empire i. i. 20 The chief executive officer at the uezd level was the ispravnik, who was elected by the nobility, and presided over the local court which was an administrative rather than a judicial body. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1886 |
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