Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word gericht.

Examples

  • Als was dat laatste wat gedetaileerder en uitgerbreider, en meer gericht op Europa.

    the Google Putsch nathreee 2010

  • Note 22: "Du bist ietzt gericht als du gericht solt werden."

    Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

  • “I believe that I am before the Unknown, or Secret Tribunal, which is called Vehme-gericht.”

    Anne of Geierstein 2008

  • We learn from the historians of Saxony, that the ‘Frey Feld gericht,’ or Free Field Court of Corbey, was, in Pagan times, under the supremacy of the Priests of the Eresburgh, the Temple which contained the Irminsule, or pillar of Irmin.

    Anne of Geierstein 2008

  • Vehme-gericht, a band of secret assassins, whom I will not permit to meet in any part of my dominions.

    Anne of Geierstein 2008

  • However, subject to possible qualifications with regard to precedents of the Bundesverfassungs - gericht (“Constitutional Court”), in Germany no higher court's decision in theory binds a lower court in a subsequent case, and no court is precluded from over - ruling its own decisions.

    LEGAL PRECEDENT T. B. SMITH 1968

  • J. Spiegel, Die Idee vom Toten - gericht in der aegyptischen Religion (Glückstadt, 1935).

    SIN AND SALVATION S. G. F. BRANDON 1968

  • Not the Inquisition of Seville, nor the German Vehm-gericht, nor the Secret Societies of Italy, were ever able to put a more formidable machinery in motion than that which cast a cloud over the State of Utah.

    A Study in Scarlet Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • Not the Inquisition of Seville, nor the German Vehm-gericht, nor the Secret Societies of Italy, were ever able to put a more formidable machinery in motion than that which cast a cloud over the State of Utah.

    A Study in Scarlet Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • Not the Inquisition of Seville, nor the German Vehm-gericht, nor the Secret Societies of Italy, were ever able to put a more formidable machinery in motion than that which cast a cloud over the State of Utah.

    A Study in Scarlet Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.