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单词 to put oneself on one's country
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to put oneself on one's (also the) country
1. transitive. To entrust or commit to the ruling or verdict of. Chiefly (now only) reflexive. Frequently in to put oneself on one's (also the) country (see country n. 7). Now chiefly historical.In early use occasionally more generally: †to commit oneself to (obsolete).
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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > trying or hearing of cause > try or hear causes [verb (intransitive)] > submit to trial by jury
to put oneself on one's (also the) countrya1425
society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > judge or determine judicially [verb (transitive)] > commit oneself to the verdict of
to put on ——a1425
to put upon ——a1470
a1425 Long Charter of Christ, C Text (Royal 17 C.xvii) (1901) l. 607 (MED) On holy wryte I may put me, Wedyre I be curtas or noȝt to þe.
c1436 Domesday Ipswich (BL Add. 25011) in T. Twiss Black Bk. Admiralty (1873) II. 33 (MED) The tenaunt shal putten hym on God and on the oth of xij men goode, lawful, and trewe..which of hem hath more right to holden the tenement axed.
a1635 R. Sibbes Learned Comm. 2 Cor. i. (1655) xii. 303 When he [sc. Abraham] had put himself on God, and left his Countrey, and his fathers house, God guided him.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 532 The King being now resolved to live on his revenue, without putting himself on a Parliament, he was forced on a great reduction of expence.
1869 W. Longman Hist. Edward III I. ii. 39 Thomas de Berkeley, accused..‘put himself on his country’, and was consequently tried by a jury of twelve men.
1948 C. C. Olson & M. M. Crow Chaucer's World i. 16 Ralph denied any grounds for John's assault; they put themselves on the country.
1977 J. B. Given Society & Homicide 13th-cent. Eng. v. 97 One person who refused to put himself on a jury was returned to prison. Another man, who also refused to submit to a jury trial, was allowed to abjure the realm.
2002 Law & Hist. Rev. 20 19 A defendant who denied plaintiff's description of the covenant could put himself on a jury or wage his law to prove his denial.
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