| 单词 | mere motion | 
| 释义 | > as lemmas(of one's) mere motion  2.  Originally and chiefly Law. Done, performed, or exercised by the person or persons specified without the assistance or instigation of anyone else; sole. Now only in  (of one's) mere motion. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > condition of being alone > 			[adjective]		 > acting alone > done by person alone mere1444 single-handed1709 unilateral1802 one-man1842 solo1909 1444    Rolls of Parl. V. 87/1  				Of his especial grace, mere motion, and singuler devotion. 1449    Rolls of Parl. V. 161/1  				This devout Collage is of his mere foundacion. 1451    Rolls of Parl. V. 216/2  				His Highnes, of his owne mere movyng and by noon other auctorite, is agreed. 1527    Rec. St. Mary at Hill 342  				But leue theym to the mer disposicion of the said parson & parisheners. 1558    in  10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS 		(1885)	 App.  v. 388  				Of our own meare gifte and volantary willis. 1589    G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie  iii. xxiv. 248  				The king of ordinarie calleth..for his Checker roll, and bestoweth his mercedes of his owne meere motion, and by discretion, according to euery mans merite and condition. 1604    Draft Royal Patent in  P. Henslowe Henslowe Papers 		(1907)	 102  				Of our further grace..and meere mocion we doe by these presentes,..give and graunt [etc.]. 1650    Earl of Monmouth tr.  J. F. Senault Man become Guilty 55  				His nature being the meer work of God had no defaults. a1718    W. Penn Tracts in  Wks. 		(1726)	 I. 681  				It is said to be out of his meer and free Will, as if it were his meer Favour. 1796    Hist. Ned Evans I. 21  				Does she know..that I have been sent for, or was it only a mere motion of your own? 1852    T. Denman in  Standard 27 Sept.  				Renewing his youthful spirit and vigour, of his own mere motion, simply because his renovation was required for the catastrophe. 1881    B. Jowett tr.  Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War I. 211  				We were wrong if of our mere motion we..fought with you, and ravaged your land. 1886    J. W. Johnston Catholic Church & Civil Liberty 237  				This was intended to prevent..the arrest of persons by officers of the law on their own mere motion and without process of law. 1942    Polit. Sci. Q. 57 230  				The executive had, by its own mere motion, got the country into a state of peace. < as lemmas  | 
	
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