| 单词 | powder treason |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspowder treason powder treason n. (also Powder Treason) now historical the treason of the Gunpowder Plotters of 1605; gunpowder treason (see gunpowder n. Compounds 2). 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 1607 S. Hieron Ruine Gods Enemies in Wks. (1620) I. 442 An euident instant whereof we haue had in the powder-treason; a deuice, which a man would thinke the diuell himselfe should be ashamed to father. 1714 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus (ed. 3) II. vii. vii. 4 Who..Had got so excellent a Nose, That he could smell out Powder-Treason, Like a Jack-daw in Cherry-Season. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. iv. 57 The powder-treason..struck a panic into James I. which operated in different ways. 1821 Life & Writings Sir Edward Coke 260 The flagitious and monstrous project known by the name of the powder-treason. 2001 Canad. Jrnl. Hist. (Nexis) Aug. 229 The reverberations of the Powder Treason yet affected the court, and a hit list had been uncovered. < as lemmas |
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