Lawname詞源 1

• 1

  A surname originating as a patronymic.

• 2

  A diminutive of the male given name Lawrence.

Lawname詞源 2

• 1

  A topographic surname from Old English, perhaps originally meaning someone who lives near a burial mound.

• 2

  a conical hill

• 3

  A village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland, United Kingdom (OS grid ref NS8252).

Lawname詞源 3

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  Synonym of Torah: the five Books of Moses, particularly the commandments in it, as well as their specification in the Mishnah and their further interpretation in later religious literature.

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  Christianitybiblicallifestylethe commandments in the Books of Moses, sometimes seen as transcended by Christ

• 3

  Christianitythe commandments and moral principles that are binding for Christians, such as the Decalogue, the teachings of the New Testament, the Church Fathers, etc.

Lawname詞源 4

• 1

  A surname from Chinese.

lawnoun詞源 1/lɔː/

• 1

  The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.

  • Not unnaturally, "Auntie" took this communication in bad part.[…]Next day she[…]tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and perhaps had spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.
  • Here one comes upon an all-important English trait: the respect for constitutionalism and legality, the belief in "the law" as something above the State and above the individual, something which is cruel and stupid, of course, but at any rate incorruptible. It is not that anyone imagines the law to be just. Everyone knows that there is one law for the rich and another for the poor. But no one accepts the implications of this, everyone takes it for granted that the law, such as it is, will be respected, and feels a sense of outrage when it is not.
• 2

  The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.

  • property law
  • commercial hunting and fishing law
• 3

  The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.

• 4

  A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.

  • There is a law against importing wallabies.
  • A new law forbids driving on that road.
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  A rule, such as:

  • "Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you" is a good law to follow.
  • the law of self-preservation
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  A rule, such as:

  • the laws of playwriting and poetry
  • The normal pronoun to use with "spirit" would be "it." But Jesus breaks the law of grammar and says not "when it," but "when he."
• 7

  A rule, such as:

  • Observing pi is easier than studying physical phenomena, because you can prove things in mathematics, whereas you can't prove anything in physics. And, unfortunately, the laws of physics change once every generation.
  • the laws of thermodynamics
• 8

  human-scienceslogicmathematicsA rule, such as:

  • Mathematical laws can be proved purely through mathematics, without scientific experimentation.

lawverb詞源 1/lɔː/

• 1

  obsoleteTo work as a lawyer; to practice law.

  • That was in 1877 you were lawing with Herdick?
  • J. H. Turner is married and lawing in Milwaukee.
• 2

  dialectalTo prosecute or sue (someone), to litigate.

  • Your husband's … so given to lawing, they say. I doubt he'll leave you poorly off when he dies.
  • "I like folks to be up and down and square," she began saying, as she vigilantly watched the effect of her culinary skill upon the awed little party. "Yes, I've got a regular hotel license; you bet I have. There's been folks lawed in this town for sellin' a meal of victuals and not having one."
• 3

  To rule over (with a certain effect) by law; to govern.

  • At its 1933 session, the Kansas legislature provided for funding outstanding bills and floating debts of those cities which could not make payment by a fixed date. By this stroke of its imagination, the legislature lawed all Kansas cities onto a "cash" basis and admonished them to stay there.
  • Earth lies in the chorus of the stars' congregation in the lawed line of their movement, in the balanced rotation of their light, bound by that lawed line, conceived in the focus of that turning; a vessel fashioned on the wheel of endless time.
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  informalTo enforce the law.

  • De gram jury lawed me all de time an' dat place got too hot.
  • The only time I ever got lawed [arrested] was for the union. Happened three times.
• 5

  To subject to legal restrictions.

  • Insurance may fairly be said to head the list of objects of legislative interference. It has been lawed and lawed until it is nearly outlawed, and the cry for more continues to go up unsatisfied
  • No man knew what his water rights were until they had been lawed over, and lawed over, and lawed over again.

lawnoun詞源 2/lɔː/

• 1

  obsoleteA tumulus of stones.

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  archaicA hill.

  • [Y]ou might climb the Law, where the whale's jawbone stood landmark in the buzzing wind, and behold the face of many counties, and the smoke and spires of many towns, and the sails of distant ships.

lawnoun詞源 3/lɔː/

• 1

  obsoletedialectalA score; share of expense; legal charge.

lawintj詞源 4/lɔː/

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  datedAn exclamation of mild surprise; lawks; in interjections, a minced oath for Lord.

  • ‘Do tell me once for all, whether you intend to marry Mr Watts or not?’ ‘Law Mama, how can I tell you what I don't know myself?’
  • […] and my boots were a leetle 'eavier than they are, law bless my soul! I'd do it myself.

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