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单词 peremptory
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Definition of peremptory in English:

peremptory

adjective pəˈrɛm(p)t(ə)ripəˈrɛm(p)t(ə)ri
  • 1Insisting on immediate attention or obedience, especially in a brusquely imperious way.

    (尤指人的举止或行为)专横的,霸道的;盛气凌人的

    ‘Just do it!’ came the peremptory reply

    “马上做!”传来蛮横的回答。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • What the police need, she once said in that peremptory way of hers, is ‘support not criticism’.
    • Same peremptory announcements forbidding any movement around the cabin during meal times were made at regular intervals.
    • This is a question I put to you all and to the international community, and I await a peremptory answer.
    • She had already moved on, issuing strict and peremptory commands to everyone in their party.
    • And beauty, as a term signifying (like health) an indisputable excellence, has been a perennial resource in the issuing of peremptory evaluations.
    • To put it in religious language, the scientist is answerable to a very stern and peremptory magisterium, the magisterium of Nature herself.
    • One peremptory glance at me and my one tremulous moment of truth had been rejected.
    • The next day his peremptory order to the authorities to send the irregulars home was obeyed with alacrity, and this should have been the end of the matter.
    • At the first sound of her peremptory voice and click of the stiletto heels, people dart behind doors and douse the lights.
    • I'd walked up and down the streets of Avarua, trying all of the coffee shops and, reluctantly, conceded that my very peremptory hostel manager was right in pointing out that this one was the best.
    • It is impossible to imagine the uproar that such peremptory and contemptuous words from him would provoke.
    • His casual and peremptory dismissal of these concerns as ‘wild accusations’, once again, does him and the organization for which he speaks no credit.
    • Whereas the latter had tended to deal with divisions through a process of avoidance or such extended discussion that unity was effected through boring dissidents into submission, his style was brusque and peremptory.
    • A programme of counselling and strict supervision of the future behaviour, accompanied by a fine or suspension, would have better fitted the crime than the peremptory expulsion and removal of the men's livelihoods.
    • He'd found the tile in the lowest part of the broken ditch, his shovel ringing against it as he made a few peremptory thrusts into the broken soil.
    • The young woman was not in the least bit cowed down by her mother-in-law's peremptory ways, nor by our presence.
    • That phrase was just addressed to me (by a teacher) in a very peremptory manner.
    • He can be extremely peremptory and dismissive at a seminar, disallowing questions that he thinks can divert the drift of the discourse or introduce an inappropriate idiom into it.
    • So fierce is his gaze, so peremptory his order, that even the shoppers forget the cold for a moment and stare in undisguised curiosity at the man with the red hackle.
    • He has been the subject of much criticism, several recall attempts and diatribes because of what is described as arbitrary and arrogant behavior, peremptory statements and decisions.
    Synonyms
    brusque, imperious, high-handed, brisk, abrupt, summary, commanding, authoritative, overbearing, dogmatic, autocratic, dictatorial, bossy, domineering, arbitrary, arrogant, overweening, lordly, tyrannical, despotic, imperial, magisterial, authoritarian
    emphatic, firm, insistent, imperative, positive
    1. 1.1Law Not open to appeal or challenge; final.
      〔律〕绝对的,强制的,不能上诉的;最终的
      a peremptory order of the court
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The appeal is scheduled for March 10th, peremptory to the Appellant, with or without counsel.
      • Disobedience to a peremptory order of the court would be sufficient to satisfy the first condition.
      • While the plaintiff has not acted expeditiously in this case, I am not prepared to find that the default is intentional and contumelious, that is, in deliberate contravention of a peremptory order of the court.
      • We invite the Tribunal to make a peremptory order in respect of those matters.
      • Human rights and peremptory norms of international law must be observed, and legal obligations toward third states must be respected.
      Synonyms
      incontrovertible, irreversible, binding, absolute, final, conclusive, decisive, definitive, categorical, irrefutable, unconditional, unchallengeable
      Law unappealable

Derivatives

  • peremptorily

  • adverb pəˈrɛm(p)t(ə)rəli
    • A juror may be challenged peremptorily whether or not the juror has been challenged for cause pursuant to section 638.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The real danger is to the smaller and ambitious clubs who develop their own players and then see them peremptorily taken away by bigger outfits.
      • Few of us could lose our job and a major chunk of our lives and self-image so peremptorily and swiftly.
      • Having peremptorily dismissed 90% of the book's content as ‘unconvincing’, he gets to the business of his review.
      • Frank sang aggressively, peremptorily, without really expecting an answer; there is desperation and neediness in Nora's voice, but I don't hear her as genuinely asking a question either.
  • peremptoriness

  • noun pəˈrɛm(p)t(ə)rɪnəspəˈrɛm(p)t(ə)rinəs
    • She attempts to counter mounting evidence by discounting prophecies, but the brevity, the peremptoriness of her responses to his anguished questions is striking.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Once in the cell, by sheer peremptoriness the young lawyer cajoles him to change outer clothes, cravat, and boots with him and to shake out his hair from its ‘queue’, to look more like his.

Origin

Late Middle English (as a legal term): via Anglo-Norman French from Latin peremptorius 'deadly, decisive', from perempt- 'destroyed, cut off', from the verb perimere, from per- 'completely' + emere 'take, buy'.

  • This was first used as a legal term meaning ‘admitting no refusal’ when used of an order or decree; it came via Anglo-Norman French from Latin peremptorius ‘deadly, decisive’, from perimere ‘destroy, cut off’. The base elements are Latin per- ‘completely’ and emere ‘take’.

Definition of peremptory in US English:

peremptory

adjectivepəˈrɛm(p)t(ə)ripəˈrem(p)t(ə)rē
  • 1(especially of a person's manner or actions) insisting on immediate attention or obedience, especially in a brusquely imperious way.

    (尤指人的举止或行为)专横的,霸道的;盛气凌人的

    “Just do it!” came the peremptory reply

    “马上做!”传来蛮横的回答。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • That phrase was just addressed to me (by a teacher) in a very peremptory manner.
    • He can be extremely peremptory and dismissive at a seminar, disallowing questions that he thinks can divert the drift of the discourse or introduce an inappropriate idiom into it.
    • The young woman was not in the least bit cowed down by her mother-in-law's peremptory ways, nor by our presence.
    • At the first sound of her peremptory voice and click of the stiletto heels, people dart behind doors and douse the lights.
    • This is a question I put to you all and to the international community, and I await a peremptory answer.
    • To put it in religious language, the scientist is answerable to a very stern and peremptory magisterium, the magisterium of Nature herself.
    • I'd walked up and down the streets of Avarua, trying all of the coffee shops and, reluctantly, conceded that my very peremptory hostel manager was right in pointing out that this one was the best.
    • So fierce is his gaze, so peremptory his order, that even the shoppers forget the cold for a moment and stare in undisguised curiosity at the man with the red hackle.
    • She had already moved on, issuing strict and peremptory commands to everyone in their party.
    • The next day his peremptory order to the authorities to send the irregulars home was obeyed with alacrity, and this should have been the end of the matter.
    • One peremptory glance at me and my one tremulous moment of truth had been rejected.
    • A programme of counselling and strict supervision of the future behaviour, accompanied by a fine or suspension, would have better fitted the crime than the peremptory expulsion and removal of the men's livelihoods.
    • His casual and peremptory dismissal of these concerns as ‘wild accusations’, once again, does him and the organization for which he speaks no credit.
    • Whereas the latter had tended to deal with divisions through a process of avoidance or such extended discussion that unity was effected through boring dissidents into submission, his style was brusque and peremptory.
    • What the police need, she once said in that peremptory way of hers, is ‘support not criticism’.
    • He has been the subject of much criticism, several recall attempts and diatribes because of what is described as arbitrary and arrogant behavior, peremptory statements and decisions.
    • And beauty, as a term signifying (like health) an indisputable excellence, has been a perennial resource in the issuing of peremptory evaluations.
    • He'd found the tile in the lowest part of the broken ditch, his shovel ringing against it as he made a few peremptory thrusts into the broken soil.
    • It is impossible to imagine the uproar that such peremptory and contemptuous words from him would provoke.
    • Same peremptory announcements forbidding any movement around the cabin during meal times were made at regular intervals.
    Synonyms
    brusque, imperious, high-handed, brisk, abrupt, summary, commanding, authoritative, overbearing, dogmatic, autocratic, dictatorial, bossy, domineering, arbitrary, arrogant, overweening, lordly, tyrannical, despotic, imperial, magisterial, authoritarian
    1. 1.1Law Not open to appeal or challenge; final.
      〔律〕绝对的,强制的,不能上诉的;最终的
      there has been no disobedience of a peremptory order of the court

      对法院的强制命令没有不服从的。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • While the plaintiff has not acted expeditiously in this case, I am not prepared to find that the default is intentional and contumelious, that is, in deliberate contravention of a peremptory order of the court.
      • Human rights and peremptory norms of international law must be observed, and legal obligations toward third states must be respected.
      • The appeal is scheduled for March 10th, peremptory to the Appellant, with or without counsel.
      • Disobedience to a peremptory order of the court would be sufficient to satisfy the first condition.
      • We invite the Tribunal to make a peremptory order in respect of those matters.
      Synonyms
      incontrovertible, irreversible, binding, absolute, final, conclusive, decisive, definitive, categorical, irrefutable, unconditional, unchallengeable

Origin

Late Middle English (as a legal term): via Anglo-Norman French from Latin peremptorius ‘deadly, decisive’, from perempt- ‘destroyed, cut off’, from the verb perimere, from per- ‘completely’ + emere ‘take, buy’.

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