单词 | lawgiver |
释义 | lawgivern. One who gives, i.e. makes or promulgates, a law or code of laws; a legislator. ΘΚΠ society > law > legislation > legislator > [noun] lawmakerc1380 lawgivera1382 law-bearer1483 legislatora1513 conditora1533 law-setter?1573 law-writer1580 nomothete1586 legifer1602 enactor1609 Numa1614 lawyera1647 nomographer1656 law-framer1876 Solon1903 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job xxxvi. 22 Lo! heȝe God in his strengthe, and noon to hym lic in lawe ȝiueres [L. legislatoribus]. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 74 Not only is holi writ despicid bi þat sciens, & blasfemid, but God Himsilf þat is þe law ȝeuar. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xxxiii. C The Lorde shalbe oure lawe geuer. 1597 F. Bacon Ess. f. 10 In the second place are Legislatores, Lawgiuers. 1611 Bible (King James) Psalms lx. 7 Iudah is my Lawgiuer . View more context for this quotation 1690 W. Temple Ess. Anc. & Mod. Learning in Wks. (1731) I. 292 They are content Pythagoras should pass for a Law-giver, but by no means for a Philosopher. 1786 A. Gib Καινα και Παλαια: Sacred Contempl. i. iii. 36 The Supreme Law~giver is entitled to the absolute subjection of his reasonable creature. 1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. 135 Minos appears in the..character..of a wise and just lawgiver. 1842 E. Miall in Nonconformist 2 1 We bow to no law-giver in the church but Christ. 1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (rev. ed.) VI. Index 510/1 [Sir Geo. Calvert] a wise and benevolent law-giver. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.a1382 |
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