单词 | to stand on trial |
释义 | > as lemmasto stand on (or †upon) trial a. intransitive. With prepositional phrase as complement. To submit to judicial trial or sentence; to be tried by a court of law; (in early use also) †to submit to divine judgement (obsolete). Later chiefly in to stand on (or †upon) trial; cf. to stand trial.In early use frequently in †to stand in (or to) doom, †to stand at (or in, to) judgement. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > trying or hearing of cause > try or hear causes [verb (intransitive)] > present oneself for judgement or stand trial to stand on (or upon) trial1771 to come up1888 OE Homily: Gospel of Nicodemus (Corpus Cambr. 41) in Mod. Philol. (1903–4) 1 612 Hi standað, þa men, æt þam dome þe him her nu ða ne hirað. c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) l. 643 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 125 For holi churche ne scholde In none stude stonde to dome Ne Ansuerie kinge ne prince noþur. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. l. 1458 How so thou be to wyte Of Branchus deth, men schal respite As now to take vengement, Be so thou stonde in juggement Upon certein condicioun. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 9492 Ne in na curt aght thral be herd, Ne stand in dom to be ansuerd. 1493 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Pynson) ix. xii. sig. G viiv/2 The dredeful doome whanne they shall stonde att the barre bifore the soueraigne iuge. ?a1500 Leges Quatuor Burgorum xxxi, in Acts Parl. Scotl. (1844) I. 338/2 Ilke spousyt man may ansuer for his spousyt wyff and stande in iugement [L. et stare in iudicio] and do for hir all thyng at þe court demys hym. 1771 E. Long Trial Farmer Carter's Dog 16 The prisoner..stands upon his Trial. 1892 Standard 11 Mar. 2/3 It was not Eastbourne alone, but the country generally, that stood upon trial. 2011 S. J. Palmer New Heretics of France ii. 59 On May 25, 2009, the Church of Scientology stood on trial at the Palais de Justice. < as lemmas |
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