单词 | to put to voting |
释义 | > as lemmasto put (something) to voting to put (something) to voting and variants: to submit (a matter) to the decision of a group (rare). ΚΠ c1600 in Sc. Hist. Rev. (1916) 19 264 Theis thinges that were done by the Lordes of Articles are..putt to the votinge and eyther refused or allowed. 1754 A. Stevenson Hist. Church & State Scotl. II. iii. ii. 489 The leet being put to voting, the choice centred in the great Mr. Henderson. 1841 G. L. Craik & C. MacFarlane Pict. Hist. Eng. III. vii. ii. 450/1 Mr. Gilbert Bodie, a drunken Orkney ass, was first called on,..when the matter was put to voting. 1996 J. Martínez-Lara Building Democracy in Brazil vi. 165 The defeated amendment would now be put to voting for the second time after a 24-hour period. < as lemmas |
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