| 单词 | salic law or code |
| 释义 | > as lemmasSalic law or code 2. In the original sense of Latin Salicus: Pertaining to the Salian Franks. Chiefly in Salic law or code (Latin Lex Salica), a Frankish law-book, written in Latin, and extant in five successively enlarged recensions of Merovingian and Carolingian date. ΘΚΠ society > law > written law > [noun] > code of laws > Salic Salic law or code1781 the world > people > ethnicities > Germanic people > ancient Germanic peoples > [adjective] > tribes Belgic1577 Marcomannic1661 Suevic1663 Alemannic1669 Rugian1723 Saliana1727 Salic1781 Alemannian1786 Alemannish1813 Rus1877 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) III. xxxviii. 583 Before the election of the Merovingian kings, the most powerful tribe, or nation, of the Franks, appointed four venerable chieftains to compose the Salic laws. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) III. xxxviii. 594 Besides these royal and beneficiary estates, a large proportion had been assigned, in the division of Gaul, of allodial and Salic lands. 1879 Encycl. Brit. X. 476/1 The Salic code..shows us the Salian king as in all respects the centre of his state. < as lemmas |
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