OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 58650

octroy

Meanings (ES + gloss)
otorgar
To grant (a privilege etc, by a government etc).
Meanwhile, however, preparations were already being made by the imperial court to impose the octroyed constitution (composed by the Interior Minister, Count Franz Stadion) on March…
This is only, as usual, making an individual the scapegoat of an epoch! It is given to no man to octroy the liberty of peoples.
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