单词 | black brigade |
释义 | > as lemmasblack brigade black brigade n. freq. humorous (a) a group of members of the clergy, esp. one likened to a military unit; the clergy considered collectively; (b) (with capital initials) (a nickname for) the Church Parliamentary Committee, a group of Conservative Members of Parliament formed in 1892 to oppose disestablishment of the Church of England (now historical). ΚΠ 1705 R. Blackmore Eliza v. 125 The black Brigades, that did on Rome depend, Assert her Power, and impious Cause defend. 1881 Macmillan's Mag. Sept. 393/1 Cassidy..ostentatiously kept away from mass, and inveighed against the ‘black brigade’. 1895 Daily News 20 May 4/7 The Welsh Church Bill will have no better chance with the Peers for being left to the tender mercies of the ‘Black Brigade’ until they are tired of the struggle. 1907 A. S. T. Griffith-Boscawen Fourteen Years Parl. vi. 65 The Church Parliamentary Party (or Black Brigade, as we were now jocularly styled) were well to the fore. 1987 G. I. T. Machin Politics & Churches in Great Brit., 1869 to 1921 v. iv. 210 Opposition in Parliament was later shown particularly by the Church Parliamentary Committee or ‘Church Party’ (or the ‘Black Brigade’ to its opponents). 1994 R. M. Crunden Brief Hist. Amer. Culture (1996) i. 26 The passions of these years would have been hard to sustain without the black brigades of Congregationalist clergy urging their flocks into something very close to a political Armageddon. < as lemmas |
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