| 单词 | casting vote |
| 释义 | > as lemmascasting vote 2. That turns the scale, deciding, decisive (see cast v. 55), as in casting voice, casting vote, casting weight. ΘΚΠ society > authority > power > influence > [noun] > decisive influence casting vote1622 casting weight1734 society > authority > power > influence > [adjective] > of decisive influence casting1622 the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > expression of choice by some approved method > [adjective] > specific types of vote casting1622 pollable1868 prerogative1885 1622 in J. B. Heath Some Acct. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1869) 101 There can be in a Court but one casting voyce or ball. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 231 Which..containe within themselves the casting act, and a power to command the conclusion. View more context for this quotation 1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. iv. 36 Even the Herbs of the Field give a casting vote against Atheism. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 17. ⁋3 The President to have the casting Voice. 1727 A. Pope et al. Peri Bathous 89 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. If it should happen that three and three should be of each Side, the President shall have a casting Voice. 1734 A. Pope Epist. to Arbuthnot 177 That Casting-weight Pride adds to Emptiness. 1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 245 Though common sense allowed a casting voice, And free from bias, must approve the choice. 1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. vi. 160 The alliance of England was a casting weight in the government of the world. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 783 The question was decided by the casting vote of the Chancellor. < as lemmas |
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