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单词 by the drum
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by the drum
P1. by the drum: publicly; by public proclamation; esp. in the form to sell by the drum: to sell by public auction. Cf. sense 1b. Obsolete.
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1564 A. Golding tr. Justinus Hist. Trogus Pompeius xxxiv. f. 134 Al the people were sold by the drum [L. Populus omnis sub corona uenditur], to the entent that by the ensample therof, the other cities myghte be a fraid to make any trouble or insurrection.
?1575 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. (new ed.) 388 Vnto him that offred most siluer..the priesthood was giuen: as when a garment is sold by the drumme [Sp. en el almoneda].
1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. liii. 241 Saintish, not in Deede, but by the Dromme.
1601 F. Godwin Catal. Bishops of Eng. 32 He..was woont to sell all other ecclesiastical promotions as it were by the drum.
1665 S. Clarke Life & Death Julius Cæsar 60 The Triumviri caused the goods of the Proscripts to be sold by the Drum, at such prizes as the Souldiers pleased.
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