| 单词 | sexennate act |
| 释义 | > as lemmassexennate act A period of six years. Chiefly (with capital initial) with reference to a German parliamentary act of 10 April 1898 permitting the creation of a restricted naval fleet over a six-year period. Also more fully sexennate act, sexennate law. Cf. septennate n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [noun] > period of specific number of years hendecadOE a week of yearsa1382 weekc1384 Olympiada1387 lustre1387 yearc1425 millenary1551 prenticeship1553 septenary1576 lustrum1590 quinquennal1590 seventy1590 septimane1603 quinquennie1606 threescore (years) and tena1616 duodecad1621 quinquennium1621 jubilee1643 quadrenniala1646 chiliad1653 septennary1659 septennium1660 triennial1661 millennium1664 tetraëterid1678 octennial1679 duodenary1681 quadrennium1779 septenniad1836 quinquenniad1842 milliad1843 tricentenary1846 triennium1847 vicennium1847 bimillenary1850 lustration1853 sexennium1858 septennate1874 quinquennial1877 pentad1880 sexennate1898 aeon1960 1898 Times 24 Mar. 5/4 The naval ‘sexennate’, as agreed upon by the committee and accepted by the Government, will be carried by a large majority. 1900 Notes Naval Progr. (U.S. Office Naval Intelligence: Gen. Information Ser. No. 19) i. 13 Then followed a navy bill carrying a definite shipbuilding program extending over a period of seven years, which was later cut down to six years and know as the Sexennate law. 1918 G. Fiennes Sea Power & Freedom xi. 224 In 1898, he was able to obtain the first of the famous German Navy Acts, that known as the Sexennate, which provided for the creation of a fleet of certain fixed proportions within a period of six years. 1936 C. N. Spinks Hist. Anglo-Japanese Alliance 1902–22 12 The German Sexennate Law of April 10, 1898, Bulow first famous navy bill, was the initial step designed to accomplish this end. 2001 R. Hobson Imperialism at Sea 241 Before the expiration of the present sexennate (by 1902 at the latest) the Reichstag must be induced to pass a second six-year program to construct a third squadron; and that was in turn to be followed by the timely introduction of a new sexennate that would realize the fourth squadron. < as lemmas |
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