单词 | translimitation |
释义 | † translimitationn. Obsolete. rare. The sending of troops across the frontier of a foreign state, for the purpose of intervening in civil war. Apparently used only with reference to proposed military intervention by Britain and France in Spain during the First Carlist War of 1833–40. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > invasion > [noun] > type of translimitation1837 home invasion1843 1837 Times 21 Jan. 4/6 The cabinet of which he [sc. M. Thiers] was head refused to intervene in the sense understood by England, and to which the name of translimitation had been given, viz. :—to occupy Passages, Fontarabia, and Bastan. 1845 W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc Hist. Ten Years II. v. iv. 445 All he [sc. Mendizábal] had made up his mind to sanction was the system of translimitation [Fr. translimitation], intended solely to deprive Don Carlos of the succours transmitted to him by the northern powers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019). < n.1837 |
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