slovo | definícia |
coventry (encz) | Coventry,Coventry n: [jmén.] příjmení, město - Velká Británie Zdeněk
Brož a automatický překlad |
coventry (czen) | Coventry,Coventryn: [jmén.] příjmení, město - Velká Británie Zdeněk Brož
a automatický překlad |
Coventry (gcide) | Coventry \Cov"en*try\ (k?v"en-tr?), n.
A town in the county of Warwick, England.
[1913 Webster]
To send to Coventry, to exclude from society; to shut out
from social intercourse, as for ungentlemanly conduct.
Coventry blue, blue thread of a superior dye, made at
Coventry, England, and used for embroidery.
[1913 Webster] |
coventry (wn) | Coventry
n 1: the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from
society by general consent); "the association should get
rid of its elderly members--not by euthanasia, of course,
but by Coventry" [syn: banishment, ostracism,
Coventry]
2: an industrial city in central England; devastated by air
raids during World War II; remembered as the home of Lady
Godiva in the 11th century |
| podobné slovo | definícia |
coventry (encz) | Coventry,Coventry n: [jmén.] příjmení, město - Velká Británie Zdeněk
Brož a automatický překlad |
send someone to coventry (encz) | send someone to Coventry,přestat s někým mluvit [zast.] [fráz.] Pino |
coventry (czen) | Coventry,Coventryn: [jmén.] příjmení, město - Velká Británie Zdeněk Brož
a automatický překlad |
Coventry blue (gcide) | Coventry \Cov"en*try\ (k?v"en-tr?), n.
A town in the county of Warwick, England.
[1913 Webster]
To send to Coventry, to exclude from society; to shut out
from social intercourse, as for ungentlemanly conduct.
Coventry blue, blue thread of a superior dye, made at
Coventry, England, and used for embroidery.
[1913 Webster] |
To send to Coventry (gcide) | Coventry \Cov"en*try\ (k?v"en-tr?), n.
A town in the county of Warwick, England.
[1913 Webster]
To send to Coventry, to exclude from society; to shut out
from social intercourse, as for ungentlemanly conduct.
Coventry blue, blue thread of a superior dye, made at
Coventry, England, and used for embroidery.
[1913 Webster] |
coventry (wn) | Coventry
n 1: the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from
society by general consent); "the association should get
rid of its elderly members--not by euthanasia, of course,
but by Coventry" [syn: banishment, ostracism,
Coventry]
2: an industrial city in central England; devastated by air
raids during World War II; remembered as the home of Lady
Godiva in the 11th century |
COVENTRY ACT (bouvier) | COVENTRY ACT, criminal law. The common name for the statute 22 and 23 Car.
II. c. 1; it having been enacted in consequence of an assault on Sir John
Coventry in the street, and slitting his nose, in revenge, as was supposed,
for some obnoxious words uttered by him in parliament.
2. By this statute it is enacted, that if any person shall, of malice
aforethought, and by laying in wait, unlawfully cut or disable the tongue,
put out an eye, slit the nose, cut off the nose or lip, or cut off or
disable any limb, or member of any other person, with intent to maim or
disfigure him, such person, his counsellors, aiders and abettors, shall be
guilty of felony, without benefit of clergy. 4 Bl. Com. 207. This statute is
copied by the act of the legislature of Pennsylvania, of April 22, 1794, s.
6, 3 Smith's Laws of Pa. 188; and the offence is punished by fine and
imprisonment. For the act of Connecticut, see 2 Swift's Dig. 293.
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