secular arm
noun/ˌsɛkjʊlə ˈɑːm/UK/ˌsɛkjələɹ ˈɑɹm/US
Etymology
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”)).
- inherited from seculer arm
Definitions
The lay or temporal authority of a secular court to pronounce punishment (particularly…
The lay or temporal authority of a secular court to pronounce punishment (particularly capital punishment) of an offender tried by an ecclesiastical court.
- The secular arm as a means by which lay power intervenes in ecclesiastical cases had two types: sought and unsought by the Church.
- Then there's no more to be done, but to deliuer them vp to the ſecular arme of the olde vvife, and do not demaund the reaſon, for that vvere neuer to make an end.
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