单词 | supersedence |
释义 | supersedencen.ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > [noun] > stopping payment due to inability to pay > postponement supersedere1491 supersedence1626 1626 in L. B. Taylor Aberdeen Council Lett. (1942) I. 240 My Lord Conservator to report his diligence in intimatting to the factors the 28 act of the last convention maid anent factoris wyffis..and obtening ane discharge of supersedens to be grantit to factoris wyffis. 2. The action of supersede v. (in various senses); the condition or fact of being superseded; supersession; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > supplanting or replacement > [noun] supplantingc1350 supplanta1393 supplantariea1393 supplantation1563 displantinga1616 succeeding1644 replacement1743 supplantment1756 supersedure1758 supersedence1772 supersession1796 substitution1829 displacement1869 supplantal1891 1715 tr. C. Freschot Compl. Hist. Treaty Utrecht I. ii. 71 The said Council shall not grant any Interdiction of Justice, Supersedence, or Marotory, without the unanimous Consent of the Ministers of the Two Powers. 1772 J. Whitaker Genuine Hist. Britons Asserted ii. 75 The name [sc. Cymri or Cimbri] appears..to have been taken up at different periods by different tribes, even in supersedence of their own previous appellations. 1784 Parl. Reg. Ireland II. 414 Maxwell and another bailiff called to the bar, for having arrested a gentleman when attending on a committee of the House.—It having appeared, that this gentleman had not produced the order of the House as a supercedence of the arrest. 1834 H. O'Brien Round Towers Ireland 363 St. Patrick..having established Christianity here [in Ireland], in supercedence of a religion, the most prominent symbols of which were snakes, cockatrices, and serpents. 1882 Rep. Director of Mint Production of Precious Metals 597 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (47th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 216) XXIII The supersedence of Cornish rollers was..a natural sequence of improved mechanism and method. 1921 Nature 1 Sept. 22/1 The rise and fall of scientific theories forms a topic for study almost as interesting as does the supersedence in history of one dynasty by another. 1982 L. M. Van Valen in E. Saarinen Conceptual Issues in Ecol. 338 Views like Strong's often fail to grasp such points as..the supercedence of regional density-dependence and competition when local catastrophes are prevalent, [etc.]. 2008 H. A. Haller Old Boys' Club 100 The roman church calls such supersedences ‘miracles’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1626 |
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