star-chamber
📖 中文释义
- a. 秘密的, 专断的
- [法] 星室法院; 进行星室法院秘密审讯的
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- n. An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in
- certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a
- jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only
- with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed on mere rumor or
- examine witnesses; it could apply torture. It was abolished by the Long