oyez
/oh-yes, oh-yez/US // ˈoʊ yɛs, ˈoʊ yɛz //UK // (əʊˈjɛs, -ˈjɛz) //
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Definitions
interj.感叹词 interjection
- 1
- : hear! attend!.
n.名词 noun
- 1
plural oyesses.
- : a cry of “oyez.”
Examples
I would not have an author make it his business to render me attentive: or that he should cry out fifty times Oyez!
All it does is give evidence that your friend and partner will be on the job when the bailiff yells oyez, oyez, oyez.
I was very much surprised to hear a court of justice in Pennsylvania opened with the old French word oyez!
On October 22, a proclamation is made in the Exchequer as follows: 'Oyez!
This is a corruption of the old Norman-French word oyez, “hear ye.”
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