| 单词 | parliamentary army |
| 释义 | > as lemmasparliamentary army parliamentary army n. (also with capital initial(s)) an army controlled by an elected parliament, usually as opposed to that of a monarch; esp. the Parliamentarian forces in the English Civil War. ΚΠ 1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana Order 27. 234 You may adde unto a Parliamentary Army an equall number of Marpesians, or Panopeans, as that Colony shall hereafter be able to supply you. 1750 R. Rolt Conduct Powers of Europe in Late War IV. 70 Many repaired to the parliamentary army, commanded by the Earl of Essex. 1849 Southern Literary Messenger Mar. 138/1 Some [of the republican party of Germany] proposed..to form a Parliamentary army. 1924 E. M. Hulme Hist. Brit. People xvi. 302 Cromwell..knew it was necessary to get rid of the Presbyterian generals and to remodel the Parliamentary army. 1992 J. M. Kelly Short Hist. Western Legal Theory vi. 230 In mid-century, during the parliamentary army's ‘Putney Debates’ of 1647, the natural right to contract and inherit..was repeatedly stressed by Ireton. < as lemmas |
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