secular arm

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌsɛkjʊlə ˈɑːm/    美 /ˌsɛkjələɹ ˈɑɹm/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The lay or temporal authority of a secular court to pronounce punishment (particularly capital punishment) of an offender tried by an ecclesiastical court. historical
    — The secular arm as a means by which lay power intervenes in ecclesiastical cases had two types: sought and unsought by the Church.

词形变化

secular arms plural,rare

词源

From Late Middle English seculer arm, seculer arme (“civil authority or power”), a calque of Medieval Latin bracchium saeculāre (“(figurative) civil or lay power”), from Latin bracchium (“arm”) + saeculāre (neuter singular form of saeculāris (“profane, temporal, worldly”)).
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