secular arm

短语

发音

UK /ˌsɛkjʊlə ˈɑːm/
其它
US /ˌsɛkjələɹ ˈɑɹm/

词形变化

secular arms 复数 secular arms

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The lay or temporal authority of a secular court to pronounce punishment (particularly capital punishment) of an offender tried by an ecclesiastical court.

    历史 宗教 法律

    The secular arm as a means by which lay power intervenes in ecclesiastical cases had two types: sought and unsought by the Church.

词源

From Late Middle English seculer arm, seculer arme (“civil authority or power”), a calque of Medieval Latin bracchium saeculāre (“(figurative) civil or lay power”), from Latin bracchium (“arm”) + saeculāre (neuter singular form of saeculāris (“profane, temporal, worldly”)).

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