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单词 to prefer charges
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to prefer charges
7. transitive. To present or submit (a bill, charge, piece of information, etc.) to someone, esp. an authority, for consideration or approval. Now chiefly in to prefer charges. Formerly also with †up.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > suggestion, proposal > suggest [verb (transitive)] > for consideration
puta1350
purposea1382
propone1402
motion1505
exhibit1529
propound?1531
prefer1539
raise1566
to put forward1569
broach1579
start1579
offer1583
propose1614
first1628
to put it to a person1664
moot1685
suppose1771
pose1862
to put up1901
1539 J. Gough tr. J. Le Maire Abbreuyacyon Gen. Councellys sig. Eviiiv In this artycle ye kyng Charles the seuenth prefered his decrees and actes of Pracmatica, Sanxio [Fr. publia et decreta la Pragmatique sanction].
1559 Bp. Scot in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1709) I. App. vii. 12 The contents of all the bills preferred and read here.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. clxij The Marques intrateth kyng Ferdinando, that he would immediatly preferre this matter to the Emperoure.
1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. Dijv That I preferd up Bills in Parliament, Whereto the King and Lords gaue all consent.
a1674 Earl of Clarendon Brief View Leviathan (1676) 103 Suppose that an Information were preferr'd in the Kings Bench..against Mr. Hobbes.
1704 Boston News-let. 12 June 2/1 Capt. Quelch preferr'd a Petition to His Excellency and Honourable Court.
1768 H. Walpole Hist. Doubts 120 The consequence of a suit preferred by him to the ecclesiastic Court.
1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake Introd. 20 But many a bard preferred his prayer; For many a Scottish bard was there.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. xxiv. 315 A superior is equally bound to prefer a charge, or to give notice that that charge will be preferred..instead of lulling the offender into security.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam c. 155 These two have striven half the day, And each prefers his separate claim, Poor rivals in a losing game. View more context for this quotation
1884 Ld. Coleridge in Law Times Rep. 50 277/1 Preferring an indictment against her for stealing his goods.
1914 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) 14 Jan. 10/5 The charge you prefer against the ‘Red Feds’.
1969 M. Puzo Godfather i. x. 129 Do you want to prefer charges against whoever did this to you?
1988 B. Cooper Alexander Kennedy Isbister i. iv. 96 Charges of illegal trafficking in furs were duly preferred against Pierre Guillaume Sayer.
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