Meanings
- historicalnot comparableOf or relating to a parlement, a provincial appellate court in the Ancien Régime of France.
Parrot cries for silence on delicate political issues sounded increasingly archaic – and were quite unable to stem the rising tide of parlementary critique.
2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 2651 more example
Until the spring of 1560 the French parlementary system had made strenuous but increasingly futile attempts to suppress the Reformation movement by organized repression of public affirmations of heretical belief and behavior […]
1999, E. William Monter, Judging the French Reformation
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