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club law en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, uncountable) Government by violence; lynch law; anarchy.
    • The enemies of our happy establishment seem at present to copy out the piety of this seditious prophet , and to have recourse to his laudable method of club-law, when they find all other means of enforcing the absurdity of their opinions to be ineffectual. 1715 June 21 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 50. Friday, June 11. [1715.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC: