单词 | revendicate |
释义 | revendicatev. Chiefly Law. transitive. To claim back; to recover by a formal claim. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > take [verb (transitive)] > take again or back > take back > take back formally revendicate1760 1760 tr. E. de Vattel Law Nations iii. xiv. §212. 86 Should some subsequent fortunate revolution deliver it from the conqueror's yoke, it can [not] revendicate them. 1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 435 Many were revendicated to Neptune's antique demesne. 1838 Amer. Jurist Apr. 23 Actions, which have for their object to preserve or to revendicate the possession. 1869 H. C. Lea Stud. Church Hist. 221 Rome..eagerly anticipates the time when opportunity shall enable her to revendicate the rights of which she has been deprived. 1917 M. Alberti et al. Italy's Great War ii. v. 100 Italy, in revendicating the Julian province as her own, laid claims on a region which had never belonged to her. 2008 W. McCuaig tr. E. Roudinesco Philos. in Turbulent Times iv. 99 The French philosopher.., designated mentally ill by experts, had never had the chance to revendicate full psychical and juridical responsibility for an act for which he had confessed he was..guilty. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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