Reichstagn.

Brit.

/ˈrʌɪxstɑːɡ/,

/ˈrʌɪʃstɑːɡ/,

/ˈrʌɪkstɑːɡ/, U.S.

/ˈraɪksˌtæɡ/,

/ˈraɪksˌtɑɡ/,

/ˈraɪxsˌtæɡ/,

/ˈraɪxsˌtɑɡ/

Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Reichstag.

Etymology: < German Reichstag assembly of the estates of the Holy Roman Empire (1495), a pan-German parliament proposed by the Frankfurt Parliament (1848), the parliament instated by the Austrian revolution (1848), the parliament of the North German Federation (1867), the parliament of Germany from the foundation of the German Empire to the end of the Second World War (1871), the Reichstag building (1919 or earlier; compare earlier Reichstagsgebäude : see Reichstag building n. at Compounds) < Reichs- , combining form of Reich kingdom, empire (see Reich n.) + Tag diet, conference (specific use of Tag day n.; compare diet n.²). Compare Reichsrat n. Compare also Bundestag n., Bundesrat n.Compare the following early reference to the Middle Low German cognate rīkesdach (also referring to the German institution) in an English context:1646 Moderator 3 This court which in England and Scotland is called a Parliament..in Germany they call it Rikes daggh, a Dyet. Not fully naturalized in English.

1. The diet or assembly of the Holy Roman Empire. historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > [noun] > meeting of

Augsburg1560

diet1565

Reichstag1823

1823 Retrosp. Rev. 8 ii. 319 To the Reichstag, however its conformation may have varied, belonged constitutional supremacy over each member of the empire.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 4 Oct. 10/1 The great ‘Church of the Protestation’, which is being erected at Spires as a memorial of the origin of the name ‘Protestant’ at the famous Reichstag in that city in 1529.

1907 Eng. Hist. Rev. 22 203 One element of the modern German constitution, the Bundesrat, may be traced historically from the old Reichstag of the Holy Roman Empire.

1952 V. H. H. Green Renaissance & Reformation vii. 102 The Imperial Diet or Reichstag, which was the official council of the empire, was a cumbrous and costly body.

2000 E. Cameron in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 399/1 Summoned to the German Reichstag at Worms in April 1521, Luther refused to withdraw his writings, unless shown to be in error according to ‘Scripture or evident reason’.

2. Originally: the proposed German federal parliament under the Frankfurt constitution of 1849, which never met. Later: the parliament of the North German Confederation (1867–71) and afterwards of Germany from 1871 to 1945. Also in extended use. Cf. Bundestag n. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > other national governing or legislative bodies > [noun] > specifically in Germany

Reichstag1849

Bundestag1879

Reichsrat1919

1849 N. Amer. & U.S. Gaz. 28 May 1/7 The resolutions of the Assembly at Frankfort,..calling upon the Governments..and the people of the German States, to establish the German Constitution, fixing the 22d of August as the day for the meeting of the first reichstag.

1849 Times 31 Aug. 6/3 The motion..is..that the 111th article of the new Prussian Constitution..be made applicable to any constitution of the Federation which may..proceed from the deliberations of the future Reichstag, established by the new Federal Constitution.

1867 Times 3 Jan. 10/1 It is proposed to exclude Government functionaries, not from the future Diet of the Confederation (Reichstag), but only from the Parliament which is about to assemble.

1870 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 3 Apr. (1956) V. 87 We went to the Reichstag one morning, and were so fortunate as to hear Bismarck speak.

1889 M. S. van de Velde Cosmopolitan Recoll. I. v. 167 Will he attend the Reichstag?

1909 E. von Arnim Caravaners xiii. 220 She began to talk to me..about..our Reichstag.

1918 Methodist Times 5 Dec. 7/2 Men..are being chosen for the English Reichstag by a secret cabal.

1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. 138 In 1928..the Nazis had secured less than 2 per cent. of the seats in the Reichstag.

1989 Lit. Rev. Aug. 34/2 In 1928 he became a member of the Reichstag.

3. The building in Berlin in which the German parliament meets.The building was completed in 1894. After being destroyed by fire in 1933 (see Reichstag fire n. at Compounds), it remained unused until the 1970s, when it was partially restored for use as a museum. Since 1999 the fully restored building has been used again as the seat of the German Bundestag.

ΘΚΠ

Reichstag building1873

Reichstag1908

1908 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 2 615 The International Congress for Historical Sciences was held in the hall of the reichstag in Berlin.

1935 C. Isherwood Mr. Norris changes Trains xvi. 263 We ought to be grateful to van der Lubbe, because the burning of the Reichstag had melted the snow.

1999 Times 19 Apr. 16/1 The German parliament meets for the first time today in the new Reichstag.

Compounds

Reichstag building n. [after German Reichstagsgebäude (1834 or earlier with reference to any building used by the Reichstag; 1871 with reference to the building completed in 1894)] (originally) any building used for meetings of the Reichstag; (later) spec. = sense 3.

ΘΚΠ

Reichstag building1873

Reichstag1908

1873 N. Germany (K. Baedeker) (ed. 5) 7 Reichstag Building.., or Hall of the Imperial Diet, may be inspected daily, except when the Diet is sitting.

1901 Science 13 Sept. 407/1 Through the courtesy of the president of the Reichstag the sessions of the Congress were held in the Reichstag building.

1950 F. Howley Berlin Command xi. 217 Nearly three hundred thousand Germans assembled in Platz der Republik, outside the old Reichstag building in the British sector.

2004 Independent (Compact ed.) 28 Apr. (Review section) 13/3 At Berlin's glass-domed Reichstag building, Foster sought what he described as ‘a virtually non-polluting, wholly sustainable public building’.

Reichstag fire n. [after German Reichstagsbrand (1933)] a fire which destroyed the Reichstag building on 27th February, 1933, leading to the suppression of the Communist Party, and aiding the seizure of power by the Nazis.A Dutch communist, Marinus van der Lubbe, was arrested and tried for starting the fire, along with a German communist and three Bulgarian Comintern agents: only van der Lubbe was convicted, and he was executed in 1934. Van der Lubbe claimed that he had acted alone, but the Nazis accused the Communists of plotting against the government, and the Communists accused the Nazis of complicity in the fire and of plotting to undermine the Communist Party and seize power (cf. Reichstag trial n.). The matter has remained one of continued historical debate.

ΚΠ

1933 Jefferson City (Missouri) Post-Tribune 28 Feb. 4/3 Herr Goering himself had arranged for the Reichstag fire.

1933 Times 1 Mar. 13/2 A communication about the Reichstag fire was issued by the Prussian authorities.

1976 S. Hynes Auden Generation v. 143 The Reichstag fire appears as an emblem of public terror.

1992 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 2 Feb. 24/4 The brazenness of the lies told by leaders is often in direct proportion to the degree of guilt—Hitler and the Reichstag fire, Stalin and the massacre of the Polish officer corps in the Katyn forest, Kennedy and American involvement in the Bay of Pigs.

Reichstag trial n. [after German Reichstagsbrandprozess, lit. ‘Reichstag fire trial’ (1933)] the trial of Marinus van der Lubbe and others accused of starting the Reichstag fire, often viewed as corrupt and staged for political ends (see note at Reichstag fire n.); (in extended use) a staged trial.

ΚΠ

1933 Times 15 Sept. 12/5 The German Government..inquired..whether the Reichstag ‘trial’ proceedings now taking place in London were in any sense under official auspices.

1968 D. Hopkinson Incense-tree xii. 156 The trial was a travesty in the tradition of the Reichstag Trial at Leipzig.

1970 Peace News 17 Apr. 8/1 Bobby Seale has been sentenced to four years for contempt of court at Attorney General Mitchell's ‘Reichstag Trial’ in Chicago.

1998 Weekly Standard (Nexis) 11 May 31 Georgi Dimitrov, the Bulgarian Communist leader,..had inspired the Left worldwide with his heroic defiance of the Nazis at the Reichstag trial.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	reichstag
释义	Reichstagn. Brit. /ˈrʌɪxstɑːɡ/, /ˈrʌɪʃstɑːɡ/, /ˈrʌɪkstɑːɡ/, U.S. /ˈraɪksˌtæɡ/, /ˈraɪksˌtɑɡ/, /ˈraɪxsˌtæɡ/, /ˈraɪxsˌtɑɡ/ Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Reichstag. Etymology: < German Reichstag assembly of the estates of the Holy Roman Empire (1495), a pan-German parliament proposed by the Frankfurt Parliament (1848), the parliament instated by the Austrian revolution (1848), the parliament of the North German Federation (1867), the parliament of Germany from the foundation of the German Empire to the end of the Second World War (1871), the Reichstag building (1919 or earlier; compare earlier Reichstagsgebäude : see Reichstag building n. at Compounds) < Reichs- , combining form of Reich kingdom, empire (see Reich n.) + Tag diet, conference (specific use of Tag day n.; compare diet n.²). Compare Reichsrat n. Compare also Bundestag n., Bundesrat n.Compare the following early reference to the Middle Low German cognate rīkesdach (also referring to the German institution) in an English context:1646 Moderator 3 This court which in England and Scotland is called a Parliament..in Germany they call it Rikes daggh, a Dyet. Not fully naturalized in English. 1. The diet or assembly of the Holy Roman Empire. historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > [noun] > meeting of Augsburg1560 diet1565 Reichstag1823 1823 Retrosp. Rev. 8 ii. 319 To the Reichstag, however its conformation may have varied, belonged constitutional supremacy over each member of the empire. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 4 Oct. 10/1 The great ‘Church of the Protestation’, which is being erected at Spires as a memorial of the origin of the name ‘Protestant’ at the famous Reichstag in that city in 1529. 1907 Eng. Hist. Rev. 22 203 One element of the modern German constitution, the Bundesrat, may be traced historically from the old Reichstag of the Holy Roman Empire. 1952 V. H. H. Green Renaissance & Reformation vii. 102 The Imperial Diet or Reichstag, which was the official council of the empire, was a cumbrous and costly body. 2000 E. Cameron in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 399/1 Summoned to the German Reichstag at Worms in April 1521, Luther refused to withdraw his writings, unless shown to be in error according to ‘Scripture or evident reason’. 2. Originally: the proposed German federal parliament under the Frankfurt constitution of 1849, which never met. Later: the parliament of the North German Confederation (1867–71) and afterwards of Germany from 1871 to 1945. Also in extended use. Cf. Bundestag n. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > other national governing or legislative bodies > [noun] > specifically in Germany Reichstag1849 Bundestag1879 Reichsrat1919 1849 N. Amer. & U.S. Gaz. 28 May 1/7 The resolutions of the Assembly at Frankfort,..calling upon the Governments..and the people of the German States, to establish the German Constitution, fixing the 22d of August as the day for the meeting of the first reichstag. 1849 Times 31 Aug. 6/3 The motion..is..that the 111th article of the new Prussian Constitution..be made applicable to any constitution of the Federation which may..proceed from the deliberations of the future Reichstag, established by the new Federal Constitution. 1867 Times 3 Jan. 10/1 It is proposed to exclude Government functionaries, not from the future Diet of the Confederation (Reichstag), but only from the Parliament which is about to assemble. 1870 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 3 Apr. (1956) V. 87 We went to the Reichstag one morning, and were so fortunate as to hear Bismarck speak. 1889 M. S. van de Velde Cosmopolitan Recoll. I. v. 167 Will he attend the Reichstag? 1909 E. von Arnim Caravaners xiii. 220 She began to talk to me..about..our Reichstag. 1918 Methodist Times 5 Dec. 7/2 Men..are being chosen for the English Reichstag by a secret cabal. 1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. 138 In 1928..the Nazis had secured less than 2 per cent. of the seats in the Reichstag. 1989 Lit. Rev. Aug. 34/2 In 1928 he became a member of the Reichstag. 3. The building in Berlin in which the German parliament meets.The building was completed in 1894. After being destroyed by fire in 1933 (see Reichstag fire n. at Compounds), it remained unused until the 1970s, when it was partially restored for use as a museum. Since 1999 the fully restored building has been used again as the seat of the German Bundestag. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > other national governing or legislative bodies > [noun] > specifically in Germany > place of Reichstag building1873 Reichstag1908 1908 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 2 615 The International Congress for Historical Sciences was held in the hall of the reichstag in Berlin. 1935 C. Isherwood Mr. Norris changes Trains xvi. 263 We ought to be grateful to van der Lubbe, because the burning of the Reichstag had melted the snow. 1999 Times 19 Apr. 16/1 The German parliament meets for the first time today in the new Reichstag. Compounds Reichstag building n. [after German Reichstagsgebäude (1834 or earlier with reference to any building used by the Reichstag; 1871 with reference to the building completed in 1894)] (originally) any building used for meetings of the Reichstag; (later) spec. = sense 3. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > other national governing or legislative bodies > [noun] > specifically in Germany > place of Reichstag building1873 Reichstag1908 1873 N. Germany (K. Baedeker) (ed. 5) 7 Reichstag Building.., or Hall of the Imperial Diet, may be inspected daily, except when the Diet is sitting. 1901 Science 13 Sept. 407/1 Through the courtesy of the president of the Reichstag the sessions of the Congress were held in the Reichstag building. 1950 F. Howley Berlin Command xi. 217 Nearly three hundred thousand Germans assembled in Platz der Republik, outside the old Reichstag building in the British sector. 2004 Independent (Compact ed.) 28 Apr. (Review section) 13/3 At Berlin's glass-domed Reichstag building, Foster sought what he described as ‘a virtually non-polluting, wholly sustainable public building’. Reichstag fire n. [after German Reichstagsbrand (1933)] a fire which destroyed the Reichstag building on 27th February, 1933, leading to the suppression of the Communist Party, and aiding the seizure of power by the Nazis.A Dutch communist, Marinus van der Lubbe, was arrested and tried for starting the fire, along with a German communist and three Bulgarian Comintern agents: only van der Lubbe was convicted, and he was executed in 1934. Van der Lubbe claimed that he had acted alone, but the Nazis accused the Communists of plotting against the government, and the Communists accused the Nazis of complicity in the fire and of plotting to undermine the Communist Party and seize power (cf. Reichstag trial n.). The matter has remained one of continued historical debate. ΚΠ 1933 Jefferson City (Missouri) Post-Tribune 28 Feb. 4/3 Herr Goering himself had arranged for the Reichstag fire. 1933 Times 1 Mar. 13/2 A communication about the Reichstag fire was issued by the Prussian authorities. 1976 S. Hynes Auden Generation v. 143 The Reichstag fire appears as an emblem of public terror. 1992 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 2 Feb. 24/4 The brazenness of the lies told by leaders is often in direct proportion to the degree of guilt—Hitler and the Reichstag fire, Stalin and the massacre of the Polish officer corps in the Katyn forest, Kennedy and American involvement in the Bay of Pigs. Reichstag trial n. [after German Reichstagsbrandprozess, lit. ‘Reichstag fire trial’ (1933)] the trial of Marinus van der Lubbe and others accused of starting the Reichstag fire, often viewed as corrupt and staged for political ends (see note at Reichstag fire n.); (in extended use) a staged trial. ΚΠ 1933 Times 15 Sept. 12/5 The German Government..inquired..whether the Reichstag ‘trial’ proceedings now taking place in London were in any sense under official auspices. 1968 D. Hopkinson Incense-tree xii. 156 The trial was a travesty in the tradition of the Reichstag Trial at Leipzig. 1970 Peace News 17 Apr. 8/1 Bobby Seale has been sentenced to four years for contempt of court at Attorney General Mitchell's ‘Reichstag Trial’ in Chicago. 1998 Weekly Standard (Nexis) 11 May 31 Georgi Dimitrov, the Bulgarian Communist leader,..had inspired the Left worldwide with his heroic defiance of the Nazis at the Reichstag trial. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1823
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