parlor, parlour (parlor)

[Formerly also sometimes parler; Roll, roll thy hoop, and twirl thy tops, And buy, to glad thy smiling chops, Crisp parliament with lollypops, And fingers of the lady. J. and H. Smith, Rejected Addre es, p. 85. ( Davies .) Act of Parliament, a statute, law, or edict made by the sovereign, with the advice and consent of the lords temporal and spiritual and the commons in Parliament a embled. Such an act cannot be altered, amended, dispensed with, suspended, or repealed but by the same authority of Parliament which has created it. - Addled Parliament, the Parliament in se ion from April to June, 1614. See the quotation. IMG:content-2364.png:[blocks in formation] Barebone's Parliament, the Parliament convened by Cromwell, July 4th, 1653: so called from a certain Praise God Barbon, Barebone, or Barebones, one of its members. From its small representation it is also known as the Little Parliament. It constituted Cromwell Lord Protector. Compare Long Parliament. - Clerk of the Parliaments. See clerk. - Convention Parliament. See convention, 3 (c). - Drunken Parliament, in Scottish hist., the ParliaIt met in 1661, and was strongly Royalist. Free Parlia n. parliamentarian (parli-men-ta'ri-an), a. and [ II. n. 1. A partizan of parliament; specifically [ cap .], in Eng . hist ., a partizan of the Long Parliament, as distinguished from a Royalist or Cavalier. There follow the heads of what they were to contain in defence of Charles and the chastity of his queen against the parliamentarians . Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting, II. ii. 2. A parliamentary debater or manager. parliamentarily (pär-li-men'ta-ri-li), adv. In a parliamentary manner. parliamentarism (pär-li-men'ta-rizm), n. [ ment which a embled after the restoration Charles II. ment. Same as Convention Parliament. - Good Parliament, the Parliament which a embled under Edward III., in 1376: so called because of its endeavors to reform corruption in the court and the government. - High Court of Parliament, the general designation of the English Parliament, which originally acted as the council of the king, but which after it was established at Westminster sitting in separate bodies as the Lords and the Commons was together technically designated by this name, and either house was spoken of as the Lords, or the Commons, "in the High Court of Parliament a embled." In later times, the phrase is more commonly used of either house, or both houses, acting in the exercise of judicial or quasi-judicial functions, such as the inquest by the Commons and the trial by the Lords of an impeachment, or the action of either house, or both succe ively, on a bill of attainder, a question of contempt, the removal and punishment of public officers, etc., as distinguished from functions of legislation and functions as council of the king. In theyre most humble wyse be see chen your most royall Mate the lords špual and temporal, and all other your moste loving and obedient subjecte the comons of this your moste Highe courte of Parliament a embled. Bill of Attainder of Katherin Hawarde, late Queen of Eng [ land, etc. (33 Hen. VIII., с. 21). Imperial Parliament. See imperial. - Lack-learning Parliament. Same as Parliament of Dunces. - Little Parliament. Same as Barebone's Parliament. Long Parliament, the Parliament which a embled on Novem ber 3d, 1640, and carried on the civil war. It was "purged" by the republicans in 1648, abolished the House of Lords, and compa ed the death of Charles I. It was violently dispersed by Cromwell on April 20th, 1653, but was twice restored in 1659, and was di olved in March, 1660, after providing for the summoning of a Free Parliament. In its later history it was known as the Rump Parliament. - Mad Parliament. See mad1. - Member of Parliament, the title of members of the House of Commons of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the lower house in some of the colonies. Usually abbreviated M. P. - Mercile Parliament, the Parliament of 1388, which exhibited articles of high treason against the ministers of Richard II. Also called Unmerciful Parliament, Won derful Parliament, Wonder- making Parliament. - Ordinance of Parliament. See ordinance. Parliament heel (naut.), the situation of a ship when careened by shift of ballast, etc., or when caused to heel over on her beam in order to clean or paint the side raised out of water. Falconer. Parliament mant, a member of Parliament. He had told several of the Jury that they needed not appear, for he would insist upon his priviledge, which the Court held a great misdemeanor. it was an abuse of his priviledge of Parliament Man. Sir R. Temple (reported by J. Keble), King's Bench [Reports, 1685. Parliament of Dunces, a Parliament convened at Coventry by Henry IV. in 1404: so called because all lawyers were excluded from it. Also called the Unlearned Par liament and the Lack - learning Parliament. Parliament of Paris, the chief of the French parliamentar the pet cipal tribunal of justice of the French monarchy, from its origin in the king's council at a very early date to the revolution. From about 1300 the parliament was constituted in three divisions - the grand ' chambre, the cham bre des requêtes, and the chambre des enquêtes. It played a = parliamentarism. parliamentary (pär-li-men'ta-ri), a. [F. parlement a ire = Sp. It. par lament a rio Pg. parlamentar; as parliament + -ary.] 1. Of or pertaining to Parliament, or, in general, to legislative bodies. There are among the expedients of French finance some Stubbs , Const. Hist., § 365. that might with parliamentary authority be adopted in England. 2. Enacted or done by Parliament, or, in general, by the authority of a legislature: as, a par liamentary act; parliamentary government. A revolution, which for the moment left England absolutely at Henry's feet, was wrought out by a series of Par liamentary Statutes. J. R. Green, Short Hist. Eng., p. 474. 3. In accordance with the rules and usages of Parliament, or, in general, with the rules and customs of legislatures; approved or allowed in legislative or deliberative bodies: as, parlia mentary language. The nomination-day was a great epoch of succe ful trickery, or, to speak in a more Parliamentary manner, of war stratagem, on the part of skilful agents. George Eliot, Felix Holt, xxx. Parliamentary agent, a person, usually a solicitor, profe ionally employed in drafting bills, petitions, etc., and in promoting or opposing private bills, or in connection with other private busine in Parliament. - Parliamentary borough or burgh. See borough, 2 (b), and burgh. -Parliamentary committee, a committee of the members of the House of Lords or of the House of Commons appointed by either house for the purpose of making inquiries, by the examination of witne es or otherwise, into matters which could not be conveniently inquired into by the whole house. Any bill or any subject brought before the house may, if the house thinks proper, be referred to a committee, and all private bills, such as bills for railways, canals, roads, or or other undertakings in which the public are concerned, are referred to committees of each house before they are considered. Such committees are generally called select commit tees. Parliamentary law, the body of settled and controlling usages of procedure in deliberative a emblies, generally founded on the common experience of such a emblies, particularly that of the British Parliament. In parl.] 1. Originally, a room set apart from the great hall for private conference and conversation; a withdrawing-room. It finally became the public room of a private house. See def. 3. He... fond two other ladys sete and she, Withinne a paved parlour, and they thre Herden a maydyn reden hem the geste Of the Seegee of Thebes, whil hem leste. Chaucer, Troilus, ii. 82. Now hath vche riche a reule to eten bi hym-selue In a pryue parloure . Piers Plowman (B), x. 97. To knowe the sondry maners and condition of people, and the variety of theyr natures, and that in a war me stud ye or parler , without peril of the see, or daunger of longe and paynfull iourneys. Sir T. Elyot , The Govern our, i. 11. Into a pleasant parlour by With hand in hand she brings the seaman all alone. The Merchant's Daughter (Child's Ballads, IV. 330). All mens houses and goods were open to them, euen to the parlours of their wines. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 455. 2. An apartment in a convent, asylum, inn, hospital, hotel, boarding-school, or the like, in which the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with visitors. Walk but into the parlour, you will find one book or other, in the window, to entertain you the while. Cotton, in Walton's Angler, ii. 265. 3. A room in a private house set apart for the conversational entertainment of guests; a reception-room; a drawing-room; also, in Great Britain, the common sitting-room or keeping room of a family, as distinguished from a drawing-room intended for the reception of company. In the United States, where the word drawing room is little used, parlor is the general term for the room used for the reception of guests. Good Margaret, run thee to the parlour ; There shalt thou find my cousin Be at rice Proposing with the prince and Claudio. Shak., Much Ado, iii. 1. 1. "A great mistake, Chettam," interposed Mr. Brooke, "going into electrifying your land and that kind of thing, and making a parlor of your cow-house. It won't do." George Eliot , Middle march, ii. The house stands for comfort and for conversation, and parlors were misnamed if not peopled with ideas. Alcott, Table-Talk, p. 81. 4. Vulgarly, any room more or le "elegantly" or showily furnished or fitted up, and devoted to some specific purpose: as, tonsorial parlors; a photographer's parlors; oyster par lors; misfit parlors. [Trade cant, U. S.] parlor-boarder (pärlor-border), n. A pupil in a boarding-school who has many privileges not granted to the ordinary pupils. I saw them this afternoon in the garden where only the parlor - boarders walk. Thackeray , Doctor Birch.