单词 | non-treaty |
释义 | non-treatyadj.n. A. adj. 1. Not party to or bound by a particular treaty; not constituting a treaty. ΚΠ 1858 in Message President of U.S. to Congress (U.S. Dept. Interior) (1860) 242 They expected to see in no long time, the attempt made by the mercantile consuls of non-treaty powers to hoist their flags..at Honan. 1907 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 15 324 These countries were all given the advantage of a lower schedule of duties than that fixed for outside and non-treaty states. 1941 Polit. Sci. Q. 56 263 The executive branch of the government apparently had the power to generalize treaty rates to non-treaty nations. 2000 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 94 205/1 The latter [agreements] include multilateral soft-law instruments in nontreaty form.., codes of conduct, [etc.]. 2. North American. Of a North American Indian: belonging to a tribe or band that has not signed a treaty with the Government. Now chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1867 Condition of Indian Tribes (U.S. Congress) App. 1 All of the tribes in southern Oregon participated, including the treaty as well as the non-treaty Indians. 1878 Saskatchewan Herald (Battleford) 18 Nov. 2/2 The non-treaty Indians invade them. 1956 C. Relander Drummers & Dreamers 121 The intruders occupied the scurfy land along the Columbia where the non-treaty people lived. 1970 N.Y. Times 12 July 53/6 Thhe son of a Seneca father and a Mohawk mother—a so-called nontreaty Indian—would have no tribal membership. 1988 D. Carpenter God's Bedfellows i. 10 Today we would probably call Noel and his family non-status or non-treaty, but in those days Father called them bush people. B. n. North American. A non-treaty North American Indian. Frequently in plural. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > [noun] > Indian of specific type of tribe Rocky Mountain Indian1801 root digger1831 mound builder1833 digger1837 treaty Indian1876 non-treaty1877 1877 W. H. Jackson Descriptive Catal. 84 Of the 2,800 Nez Percés now living, nearly half..are prosperous farmers and stock-growers. The rest are ‘non-treaties’. 1885 J. L. Onderdonk Idaho 15 Councils were held at Lapwai to apportion lands to the various chiefs of the Non-treaties. 1945 Beaver Mar. 12/1 Some four hundred Chipewyans and one hundred Crees, the latter being mixed treaties and non-treaties. 1999 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman (Nexis) 19 Dec. k6 The protagonists..are Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and Gall, leaders of the ‘nontreaties’ against whom the U.S. government delcared war in 1876. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1858 |
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