| 单词 | trial by battle |
| 释义 | > as lemmastrial by battle a. A fight between two persons, a single combat, a duel. trial by battle: the legal decision of a dispute by the issue of a single combat. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] > single combat or duel handplayeOE deraignc1300 battlea1400 duellation1502 two-hand battlec1503 combat1567 push of pick1578 monomachy1582 combacy1586 hand fight1587 duel1589 rencounter1590 single fight1598 field meeting1603 camp-fight1605 duello1606 judicial combat1610 fight of stand?1611 stand-fight?1611 business1612 monomachia1624 single combat1625 single field1630 duelliona1637 rencontrea1722 affair of honour1737 meeting1813 holmgang1847 mensur1848 duomachy1885 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3463 Bituix vn-born a batel blind. c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) ii. xxix. 65 b Romains By singuler batayle had wonne the victory. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 26 Batayle, pugna, duellum. 1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 12 A gret batle rose betwene Roberte Glocitre & Arthur Ormesby in Smythfelde. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. i. 92 I say, and will in battle proue..That, etc. View more context for this quotation 1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 39 Battaile is an ancient triall in our Law, which the Defendant in appeale of murder, robbery, or felony, may chuse. 1641 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 356 The House afterwards Ordered a Bill to be brought in to take away Tryal by Battel. 1819 A. Rees Cycl. IV. at Battle The last trial by battel that was waged in the court of common pleas at Westminster..was in 1571. < as lemmas |
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