单词 | abeyance |
释义 | abeyancen. 1. Law. Of a right or title: the position of waiting for or temporarily being without a claimant or owner. Also: a period of being without a claimant or owner. Chiefly in in (also into) abeyance. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > [noun] > condition of being without claimant or owner abeyance1528 abeyancy1839 1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) iii. f. xlviiiv The ryght of fee symple is in obeyaunce [1538 abyance, 1574 abeiance], that is to say all onely in the remembraunce entendement and consyderacyon of the lawe. 1642 tr. J. Perkins Profitable Bk. xi. §708. 308 The fee is in abeyance. 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. lxvi. 233 The right was vanished into the clouds, or as the Lawyers terme it in Abeyance. 1691 Blount's Νομο-λεξικον (ed. 2) (at cited word) And it is a Principle in the Law, That of every Land there is a Fee-simple in some man, or it is in Abeyance. 1719 J. Lilly Pract. Conveyancer I. 176 Where a Lease is made to B. for Life, Remainder to his right Heirs, he hath a Fee executed, and it shall not be in Abeyance. 1763 Ld. Barrington Lett. 11 Apr. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 462 Sir Francis Dashwood called to the House of Lords as Baron Dispenser (in abeyance since Lord Westmoreland's death). 1804 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. III. 248 It falls into abeyance..during the continuance of the coheirship. 1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. i. vii. 67 There are several instances of a barony revived after an abeyance of several centuries. 1863 C. Boutell Man. Heraldry xiv. 89 The Peerage that is in Abeyance is dormant only, and not dead. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 61/2 The crown can also call the peerage out of abeyance at any moment. 1957 Times 11 May 7/5 The Chief Butlery of Ireland may be in partitional abeyance, but it is hereditary with the Marquis of Ormonde. 2008 Daily Tel. 10 Sept. 31/2 The peerage had fallen into abeyance on the death of the 7th Baron in 1507, but had been revived in 1840. 2. Temporary inactivity or disuse; suspension; latent condition. Chiefly in in (also into) abeyance. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > temporary cessation of activity or operation > [noun] steadc1000 leathc1175 abiding1340 broklinga1400 pausation1422 pausing1440 interceasingc1450 suspensing?1504 suspending1524 intermission1526 leathing1535 suspensationc1571 intercession1572 suspense1584 abeyance1593 suspension1603 recession1606 interruption1607 recess1620 intercision1625 intercessation1659 intermittency1662 pretermission1677 break1689 cess1703 intermittence1796 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 26 His other miraculous perfections are still in abeyance: and his monstrous excellencyes in the predicament of Chimera. 1626 W. Prynne Perpetuitie Regenerate Mans Estate 386 Peters faith..was not in abeiance, nor yet transmitted into any other subiect for the time, but vtterly lost and annihilated by this his sin. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 61 in Justice Vindicated And this monarchy not a thing in abeiance, an aiery title, but an absolute free and independent monarchy. a1720 L. Milbourne Legacy Church of Eng. (1722) I. iv. 101 All this yet was but a Power in Abeyance. 1794 E. Burke Speech against W. Hastings in Wks. (1827) XV. 13 His honour is in abeyance; his estimation is suspended, and he stands as it were a doubtful person. 1829 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. vi. 181 The belief was fallen into abeyance. 1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral xvii. 419 In the abeyance of the Cathedral services. 1878 B. Stewart & P. G. Tait Unseen Universe vii. §204. 203 That the soul may remain veiled or in abeyance until the resurrection. 1922 E. von Arnim Enchanted April (1989) 267 She really had all the qualities he had credited her with during his courtship, and they had been..merely in abeyance since. 1997 Men's Health Sept. 153/3 For six months my passion for cream cakes has been held in abeyance. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1528 |
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