单词 | prerogatival |
释义 | prerogativaladj. Chiefly historical. rare before late 19th cent. Of or relating to prerogative, esp. (in later use) to the royal prerogative. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [adjective] > relating to royal rights prerogatival1619 1619 J. Sempill Sacrilege Sacredly Handled 73 So must it not remaine still ἐν αὐτῶ, but returne ἐπι χριστον. All these prerogatiual Prepositions end euer in Christ. 1889 F. W. Maitland Coll. Papers (1911) II. 71 The further back we look..the more closely does it seem connected with prerogatival rights. 1905 Jrnl. Soc. Compar. Legislation 6 274 The cases of the King's Prerogative, which Bacon adopted..in 1608, admirably summarises the prerogatival power, in matters relating to Parliament, to the persons of the King's subjects. 1961 E. F. Jacob Fifteenth Cent., 1399–1485 vi. 211 The protectorship was to be subordinate to the council and to lack the prerogatival powers which the council had claimed to exercise on behalf of the king during the minority. 1992 Jrnl. Brit. Stud. 31 162 Schemes to raise revenue through ‘nontax taxes’: impositions, forced loans, ship money, each undertaken in the name of some executive or prerogatival function. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1619 |
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