单词 | before the fact |
释义 | > as lemmasbefore the fact a. before the fact: before an action is performed or an event occurs; Law before the commission of a crime or offence.See also accessory before the fact n. at accessory n. and adj. Phrases 1, accessary before the fact n. at accessary n. and adj. Phrases 1. ΚΠ 1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Mij To marke thinges that go before the facte, as whether he hated the man or no. 1565 T. Harding Confut. Apol. Church of Eng. vi. xii. f. 308v Commaunding is a thing that goeth before the facte, auctorizing is the makinge of a thing good by present agreeing to it whiles it is done. 1670 T. Blount Resol. Judges Statutes Bankrupts 86 He who is consenting to the making of false Money, commits High-Treason, for he is Particeps Criminis before the Fact. 1757 E. Burke Philos. Enq. Sublime & Beautiful i. §15. 27 If a man kills me with a sword; it is a necessary condition to this that we should have been both of us alive before the fact; and yet it would be absurd to say, that our being both living creatures was the cause of his crime and of my death. 1835 Polit. Mirror v. 51 The letter containing its [sc. the Government's] views, though dated months before the fact, did not reach him for months afterwards. 1932 N.Y. Times 3 Aug. 36/3 De Cicilio was held as an accomplice before the fact. 1970 J. E. Illick Amer. & Eng., 1558–1776 191 His [sc. John Locke's] ‘Second Treatise of Government’ is often viewed as an apology for the Glorious Revolution, though it was written before the fact. 2006 PC World Apr. 79/4 It..shows you a list of the files that will be deleted, before the fact. < as lemmas |
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