| 单词 | powder plot |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspowder plot powder plot n. (also Powder Plot) now historical and rare = Gunpowder Plot n. at gunpowder n. Compounds 2a. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > insurrection > [noun] > an insurrection > specific Jacquerie1523 powder treason1607 powder plot1611 the Fifteena1797 Gunpowder Plot1796 whisky insurrection1824 the Forty-five1832 whisky rebellion1863 Easter Rising1916 intifada1985 1611 in M. C. Questier Newslett. Archpresbyterate G. Birkhead (1998) 128 He is very sharp against diverse of their writers about the doctrine of deposition & the powder plott. 1651 R. Williams Bloody Tenent yet More Bloody in R. H. Pearce Colonial Amer. Writing (1956) 59 This Tenent is so universally opposite to God and man..that like the Powder-plot, it threatens to blow up all Religion. 1716 T. Bradbury Serm. preach'd November 5 4 The first amazing Kindness that's inscribed upon the Fifth of November..is the Discovery of the Powder-Plot. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. v. viii. 284 Levelled Cannon, Guy-Faux powder-plots (for that too was spoken of). 1900 Dict. National Biogr. LXIII. 163/1 The trial of Guy Fawkes and the great powder-plot conspirators. 1996 Guardian (Nexis) 23 Aug. (Review section) 15 The Powder Plot is not just a story of Jacobean intrigue, and plotting and sub-plotting at the centre of State. < as lemmas |
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