| 单词 | parson-power |
| 释义 | > as lemmasparson-power parson-power n. (a) humorous [after horsepower n.] the power or rate of work of a parson in a certain task, such as eating; (b) power exercised by parsons. ΚΠ 1822 M. Edgeworth Let. 7 Jan. (1971) 314 Sydney Smith to frighten a little boy who was going to school..told him that..the boys were flogged with three-usher power—as good as what he said of a man's eating with a 3-parson power. 1871 tr. K. Marx Civil War in France iii. 18 The Commune was anxious to break the spiritual force of repression, the ‘parson-power’, by the disestablishment and disendowment of all churches as proprietary bodies. 1912 J. O. P. Bland Recent Events China v. 114 Young China resembles, and even excels, Old China in its forty-parson-power capacity for dividing any and every subject into heads and sub-heads innumerable. 1994 C. Bengelsdorf Probl. Democracy in Cuba 26 The end of ‘parson power’, with the complete separation of church and state. < as lemmas |
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