| 单词 | monk-ridden |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmonk-ridden monk-ridden adj. ΚΠ 1728 T. Gordon Disc. upon Tacitus in T. Gordon tr. Tacitus Ann. in Wks. I. vii. x. 88 The Catalans were freedmen and valiant; the Romans poor monkridden slaves. 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold II. vi. v. 110 He concealed his disdain of the monks and monk-ridden. 1893 Littell's Living Age 10 June 644 So monk-ridden a country does not afford a favorable field for Christian missions. 1943 R. W. Seton-Watson Hist. Czechs & Slovaks ix. 154 Nowhere..did the sharp turn away from clerical dominance to secular tendencies have more far-reaching effects than in the Czech lands, hitherto not so much priest-ridden as monk-ridden. 2009 M. Ferrero & R. Wintrobe Polit. Econ. Theocracy iv. 110 These are the years when the monk-ridden Curia established the legal machinery that immensely consolidated the papal..ability to govern. < as lemmas |
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