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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /steɪts ˈdʒɛn(ə)ɹəl/

固有名詞

States General

1. (historical) A consultative assembly in prerevolutionary France uniting representatives of the three estates of clergy, nobles, and commons. [1302–1789]
   • 1932, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand, Folio Society, published 2010, page 18:

     In 1789, with bankruptcy staring the government in the face, Louis XVI took the momentous decision to summon the States-General.

2. (historical) A similar assembly in the Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands. [1464–de facto 1632]
3. (historical) An executive-legislative council in the Dutch Republic, consisting of delegates of the sovereign Dutch provinces, that functioned as a de facto confederal government and/or collective head of state. [1588–1795]
   • 1712, Francis Hare, The Treaty Between Her Majesty and the States-General for Securing the Succession to the Crown of Great-Britain, and for Settling the Barrier for the States-General Against France, Consider'd‎, page 8:

     It ſhall be Lawful for his Royal Majeſty of Great-Britain, and the States-General, by common Advice, and for the Benefit and Enlargement of the Navigation and Commerce of their Subjects, to ſeize by their Forces, what Lands and Cities they can, belonging to the Spaniſh Dominions in the Indies; (…).

4. The bicameral parliament of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. [from 1815]

同意語

• (French assembly): Estates General