| 单词 | throne and altar |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthrone and altar throne and altar n. the established political and ecclesiastical authorities of a state (cf. Church and State n. at church n.1 and adj. Phrases 6a); also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > [noun] > the civil and ecclesiastical powers throne and altar1681 1681 S. Crossman Two Serm. i. 3 The Church and State, Prince and Priest, Throne and Altar, they are all brought in by the Prophet as cloth'd in mourning. 1712 C. Hornby Fourth Part Caveat Against Whigs 47 These mongrel Protestants..were ready for a general Assault both upon the Throne and Altar. 1794 tr. A. Barruel Hist. Clergy during French Revol. iii. 221 The reign of impiety would not be established but on the ruins of the throne and altar. 1822 Edinb. Rev. 37 420 The poetical representation of the..Throne-and-Altar class. 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Jan. 4/2 Two currents ran through the auditory. Gentlemen of high life and throne and altar journalists were hostile. Radical journalists..were brimful of sympathy. 1908 Expositor June 558 The guardian of the nation's throne and altar. 1950 G. O. Sayles Medieval Found. of Eng. 192 The five centuries of Anglo-Saxon rule exhibited a close co-operation between State and Church, a union between throne and altar. 2011 T. S. Shah & D. Philpott in J. Snyder Relig. & Internat. Relations Theory ii. 45 The calamity of World War I served to discredit throne-and-altar alliances between religion..and the nation-state. < as lemmas |
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