| 单词 | myrmidon of justice |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmyrmidon of justice 4. Chiefly derogatory. A police officer, bailiff, or other law enforcement officer. More fully myrmidon of the law, myrmidon of justice. Now archaic and rare. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > law-enforcement or peace-officer > [noun] grithsergeant1293 Officer of the Lawc1380 peace officer1649 town officer1667 constable?c1682 myrmidon1699 limb of the law1730 ossifer1819 eirenarch1867 Keystone1929 lawman1959 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Myrmidons, the Constable's Attendants..; also the Watchmen. 1714 Spectator No. 616. ⁋4 I have just left the Right Worshipful and his Myrmidons about a Sneaker of Five Gallons. 1809 Ld. Byron Eng. Bards & Sc. Reviewers 467 Bow-street Myrmidons. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge lxvi. 320 His complaint should be..fully stated..to all the inferior myrmidons of justice. 1889 Dict. National Biogr. XVIII. 227/2 The myrmidons of the law burst in upon them and carried off a dozen or so of the boldest and threw them into prison. 1909 ‘I. Hay’ in J. Philip et al. Best of Granta i. 43 I found myself confronted by a grim-looking gentleman in a cap and gown and bands, behind whom stood two of the most ferocious-looking myrmidons I have ever beheld. 1916 E. P. Oppenheim Amiable Charlatan i. 14 In case we should turn out to be desperate characters,..a myrmidon of the law is lurking near. 1935 M. Anderson Winterset i. iii. 35 A uniformed minion of the rich, a guardian myrmidon of the Park Avenue pleasure hunters, steps in and puts a limit on the innocent enjoyments of the poor! 1949 B. Frechtman tr. J. Genet Our Lady of Flowers 106 To escape from the myrmidons of the law. < as lemmas |
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