raise to the ermine

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To ennoble; to appoint someone to the House of Lords or the judiciary. Commonwealth
    — THE Times, in a late article on the judicial system, in reference to the objection that, 'by multiplying judicial officers an inferior order of men must be raised to the ermine,' remarked that, if fifty years ago it was easy to select fifteen judges from the mass of practising barristers, it ought to be quite as easy to choose twenty or twenty-five now from a field of selection three or four times as wide.

词形变化

raises to the ermine present,singular,third-person raising to the ermine participle,present raised to the ermine participle,past raised to the ermine past

词源

Since ermine robes were traditionally worn by members of the House of the Lords, and by high-ranking judges in the English courts.
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