单词 | secede |
释义 | secedev. 1. intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > part or go away in different directions > separate from the general company to stand out1569 to stand by1590 secede1702 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi iii. Introd. 5/2 A strange Work of God upon the Spirits of Men that were, no ways, acquainted with one another, inspiring them, as one Man, to secede into a Wilderness, they knew not where. b. Of a thing: To retire, withdraw to a distance. (A Latinism.)Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters IV. 349 The great mountains secede into supremacy through rosy depths of burning air. 2. a. To withdraw formally from an alliance, an association, a federal union, a political or religious organization.The most prominent applications of the verb are to the action of a minority of a religious body, and to that of a state forming part of a federal union. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > seek seclusion [verb (intransitive)] withdrawc1385 to renounce the worlda1425 retirea1538 sequester1627 secede1755 to do (also pull) a Garbo1932 society > faith > aspects of faith > sectarianism > schism > be or become schismatic [verb (intransitive)] schize1596 schismatize1601 schism1604 secede1755 society > authority > rule or government > a or the state > make into state [verb (intransitive)] > withdraw from federal union secede1825 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. To secede, to withdraw from fellowship in any affair. 1777 E. Burke Let. to Marq. Rockingham in Wks. IX. 170 He is of opinion, that if you adhere to your resolution of seceding, you ought not to appear on the first day of the meeting. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 226/2 Accordingly the ejected ministers declared in their protest that they were laid under the disagreeable necessity of seceding, not from the principles and constitution of the church of Scotland,..but from the present church-courts. 1825 T. Jefferson Autobiogr. in Wks. (1859) I. 13 Possibly their colonies might secede from the Union. a1831 S. Hinds in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) X. 764/1 He who is convinced that his Church is essentially in error is bound to secede. 1846 J. Macfarlane Late Secess. Ch. Scotl. 124 It were grievous misconception to suppose that all who seceded did so on the substantial merits of the question at issue. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xlvi. 411 A member of the house from which old Sedley had seceded was very glad to make use of Mr. Clapp's services. 1876 E. Mellor Priesthood viii. 391 The numerous clergy..who have seceded to Rome. 1883 H. B. Leech in Contemp. Rev. XLIII. 267 The law..suggests a distrust of the State which secedes from a confederacy without justifiable excuse. b. rarely in wider sense: To withdraw from taking part (in conversation). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > seek seclusion [verb (intransitive)] > withdraw from conversation secede1856 1856 D. M. Mulock John Halifax I. xii. 263 The conversation fell to the three younger persons—I may say the two—for I also seceded, and left John master of the field. 3. transitive. To withdraw (a component territory) from a federal union or the like; to detach or cede (a piece of land). rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > relinquish or give up [verb (transitive)] > hand over to another > hand over territory cede1754 secede1946 1946 W. Faulkner Portable Faulkner 739 A plot to secede the whole Mississippi Valley from the United States and join it to Spain. 1963 A. Smith Throw out Two Hands xv. 156 Many people feel it was wrong..for any park to secede part of itself for any reason. Derivatives seˈceded adj. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > [adjective] > having withdrawn seceded1894 1894 Daily News 25 Apr. 4/7 Even in Birmingham multitudes of seceded Liberals are tired of serving the Tory party. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1702 |
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