单词 | vehmic |
释义 | Vehmicadj. Designating the Vehmgericht; or, relating to, or associated with such a tribunal. Also in extended use (cf. Vehmgericht n. 2). ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [adjective] > relating to secret court in Westphalia Vehmic1779 1779 tr. C. F. X. Millot Elements Gen. Hist.: Pt. Second I. 113 The sanguinary tribunals of the Vehmic court [Fr. cour Vehmique]. 1790 J. Bentham Draught New Plan Organisation Judicial Establishm. France ii. i. 26 The tribunal, erected by I forget what German emperor, under the name of the Vehmic Council, exercised the power of life and death. 1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein II. viii. 258 Machinations for the destruction of the Vehmique institutions. a1849 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) I. 276 Invisible as a familiar or agent of the Vehmic association. 1900 Outlook 25 Aug. 121/2 The terrible secret societies known to past history as the Vehmic tribunals of Westphalia. 1962 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 34 79/1 Such phenomena as the Vehmic murders, the Phoebus scandal, and the official encouragement of fanatically anti-Weimar right-wing groups. 2002 F. S. Frank in D. H. Thomson et al. Gothic Writers 147 The popular Gothic subject of the Vehmgericht or secret Fehmic court. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1779 |
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