单词 | unlawfully |
释义 | unlawfullyadv. 1. In a manner contrary to or not conforming with law; illegally. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > illegality > [adverb] unlawlyc1175 unlawfullya1350 unleefullya1382 wrongfully1439 unlawful1477 unleesomely1528 illegally1628 illegitimatelya1634 unlegally1638 illicitly1812 viciously1880 a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 50 Þat he wolde..me lede to my lyues ende vnlahfulliche in lyhte. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 133 Wilfrede vndertook hym for he hylde vnlawfulliche Esterday. c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. iv. l. 290 As þe sauter sheweþ by suche as ȝeuen mede, Þat vnlawfulliche [lyuen] hauen large honden. 1414 Petition in Rotuli Parl. (1767–77) IV. 57/1 The processe of myn outelawery was unlawefully made. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 125 Jniure or violence vnlauchfully vsurpit. 1549 J. Cheke Hurt of Sedicion sig. C1v If theyr goodes..shal vnlawefully & vnorderly..be spoyled. 1653 G. D. in T. Urquhart Logopandecteision ii. sig. H3v Unlawfully-acquired goods. 1685 R. Baxter Paraphr. New Test. Mark i. 44 The unlawfully called and bad priests. 1710 Act 9 Anne c. 21 §1 in Statutes of Realm (1963) IX. 479 If any Person..shall unlawfully attempt to kill or shall unlawfully assault..One of the most Honourable Privy Council. 1798 J. Wentworth Compl. Syst. Pleading VI. 369 The said T. W...did then and there with force and arms unlawfully make an assault and affray upon the said E. P. 1824 J. Mackintosh Speech in Commons 1 June in Wks. (1846) III. 401 Whether a British subject has been lawfully or unlawfully condemned to death. 1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen xxv. 374 The Mahometan authorities..were..conscious of having acted unlawfully. 1928 M. Kavanagh Criminal & Allies iv. 34 The habitual criminal may be defined as one whose occupation is to subsist unlawfully as much as possible upon the rightful possessions of others. 2016 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 17 Mar. 28 A community leader has accused police of acting unlawfully. 2. Outside marriage, illegitimately. unlawfully begotten (also conceived, born): illegitimate. Cf. unlawful adj. 4. Now archaic and rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adverb] > illegitimately unlawfullya1425 bastardlike1563 spuriously1755 on the wrong side of the blanket1771 a1425 Dialogue Reason & Adversity (Cambr.) (1968) 19 (MED) I was vnlawfulli goten..I was gotyn in leccherye. ?a1540 (c1460) G. Hay tr. Buik King Alexander the Conquerour (1986–90) l. 2096 It was renummyne That Alexander vnlauchfullie was cumin And that King Philipe his father neuir was. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 132 Athir Bastardis, or vnlawfollie gottin and borne. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 193 Rather..then my sonne should be vnlawfullie borne. View more context for this quotation 1676 R. Dixon Nature Two Test. 362 Legitimating is the Justifying of a Bastard, by imputing the right of a lawful birth to him that was unlawfully born. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 203 What part, I being unlawfully born, may claim of the Man's Affection who begot me. 1838 G. L. Craik & C. MacFarlane Pict. Hist. Eng. I. iii. i. 416/2 The delicate point to be decided was..which of the two—the lawfully begotten nephew of a king, or the unlawfully begotten son of a king—was the greater personage. 1857 Athenæum 14 Feb. 208/1 The people in general are idle and ill-pantalooned, and their offspring run about or attend school, unlawfully born. 1914 Pacific Reporter 136 823/1 Mothers of unlawfully conceived children, for various reasons, charge different male persons of being the father of the same child. 2011 B. Purdy Tudor Throne xii. 117 My belly quickened with Tom Seymour's unlawfully, treasonously begotten bastard. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.a1350 |
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