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单词 parliament man
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parliament mann.

Brit. /ˈpɑːlᵻm(ə)nt ˌman/, U.S. /ˈpɑrləm(ə)nt ˌmæn/
Inflections: Plural parliament men.
Forms: see parliament n.1 and man n.1 Also with capital initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: parliament n.1, man n.1
Etymology: < parliament n.1 + man n.1
1.
a. A Member of Parliament, esp. one well versed in parliamentary procedure and experienced in debate; a parliamentarian.In the U.K. applied occasionally to a member of the House of Lords, but more commonly, like Member of Parliament, used to denote a member of the House of Commons.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > English or British parliament > [noun] > Member of Parliament
member1454
parliament man1555
parliamentary1626
parliamenter1656
MP1764
parliamentarian1834
MSP1994
1555 N. Ridley Brief Declar. Lordes Supper sig. B8v I wold knowe, whether that Christes wordes spoken vpon the cuppe, were not as mightye in worke,..to all intentes, constructiones and purposes (as our Parliament men doo speake), as they were spoken vpon the bread?
a1576 L. Nowell Vocabularium Saxonicum (1952) 125/1 Ȝe Motman, a speaker in parlement, a parlement man.
1603–4 Commons Jrnls. 23 Mar. 3 44 A third grave person and an ancient Parliament man, remembreth and alloweth the motions made by Sir Rober Wroth and Sir Edward Mountague.
1621 J. Mead Let. 21 July in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1849) (modernized text) II. 265 We talk here as though the Earl of Southampton should refuse to answer the commissioners..because he is a Parliament man.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1660 (1955) III. 250 All the Parliament men, both Lords & Comm:.
1743 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman (Dublin ed.) Sept. xxviii. 99 The late Colonel Cage, who was several Years Parliament-man for the City of Rochester.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xviii. 195 I set him down in my own mind for nothing less than a parliament-man at least.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iii*, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 100 When we had a King, and a chancellor, and parliament-men o' our ain, we could peeble them wi' stanes when they were na gude bairns—But naebody's nails can reach the length o' Lunnon.
1851 W. M. Thackeray Let. 21 Sept. in J. Brown Lett. (1912) 398 Duchesses and great ladies came.., and the heads of my own profession, with bishops, bigwigs, and Parliament men.
1995 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 13 July 4 There were today's politicians from the Cabinet and shadow Cabinets paying tribute to a great parliament man.
b. Applied more generally to members of other legislative bodies. Obsolete. rare.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > [noun] > member of
elder1382
elder mana1387
senator1387
parliament mana1744
MHK1780
state senator1800
parliamentarian1889
MLA1897
a1744 W. Byrd Hist. Dividing Line (1866) I. 36 Letting us know he was a Parliament Man [described as ‘one of the Senators of N. Carolina’].
2. A person on the side of Parliament during the English Civil War; = parliamentarian n. 2.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > [noun] > supporter of parliament, Cromwell, or commonwealth
roundhead1641
parliamentarian1642
parliamenteer1642
parliament man1642
Westminsterian1645
Oliverian1648
parliamentary1649
parliamenterc1650
commonwealth man1651
aproneer1659
Protectorian1659
Protectorist1659
1642 T. Barrow Let. 3 July in Oxinden Lett. (1933) 310 Had you butt heard the discourse I heard from a parliament man this day, you would persist from being soe strong a parliamentarian.
1643 W. Umfreville Vn-deceiver 7 We may then swear, that if we can prevent it,..no good Parliament-man, or Common-wealths-man shall be put to death.
1853 J. G. Whittier Prose Wks. (1889) II. 419 The pious enthusiasm of the old Cameronians and Parliament-men of the times of Cromwell.
1991 Past & Present Aug. 50 In their eagerness to sanctify the land by facilitating prosecution, parliament-men provided abundant opportunity to the vindictive and the petty-minded, let alone the zealous.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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