ex post facto英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

形容词 adj.

Retroactive. not-comparable

— One of them added that it was hard lines that there wasn’t any gentleman “such-like as yourself, squire,” to show some sort of appreciation of their efforts in a liquid form; […] The opportunities of acquiring an abnormal thirst had been here limited; a noble use of them had, however, been made, and again I was compelled to deal with the result in an ex post facto manner.
Retroactive.; Formulated or enacted after some event, and then retroactively applied to it. not-comparable

— Coupled with the Constitution's proscription of ex post facto laws is a similar prohibition against bills of attainder.

副词 adv.

By retroactive application of a law formulated or enacted after the deed in question. not-comparable

— What he did was not a crime when he did it, but he was convicted ex post facto.

词形变化

expost facto alternative expostfacto alternative expost facto alternative expostfacto alternative

词源

词源 1

From Latin ex (“from”) + post (“after”) + factō, ablative of factum (“deed”). In Latin, ex takes the ablative case, while post takes the accusative case. (See Wikipedia for a discussion of the grammatical form and usage of this phrase.)

词源 2

From Latin ex (“from”) + post (“after”) + factō, ablative of factum (“deed”). In Latin, ex takes the ablative case, while post takes the accusative case. (See Wikipedia for a discussion of the grammatical form and usage of this phrase.)