Meaning of trælagtig | Babel Free

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slavelike, like a slave

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“... han skriver i et Brev 1726: "Det er et Land, hvor man tænker frit og ædelt og ikke lader sig indsnævre af nogen trælagtig Frygt.”

In 1726, he writes in a letter: " It is a country where one thinks freely and nobly and does not allow oneself to be constrained by any slavelike fear.

“... men Theologien er jo dog en trælagtig Art af Studier ...”

... but theology is after all a slavelike kind of study ...

“... medens Soldaten vægrede sig at gribe til Vaaben mod Medborgere, saa hersker i Sverrig paa flere Steder den trælagtige Tænkemaade, at frie og veltænkende Medborgeres ædelmodige Stræben for at vedligeholde Friheden os Rigslovene i deres fuldkomne Kraft og Virkning, ansees af somme med Koldsindighed og af andre som et strafbart Foretagende.”

... while the soldier hesitated to take up arms against fellow citizens, there rules, in several places in Sweden, the slavelike way of thinking [by which] the noble striving of free and well-thinking fellow citizens to maintain freedom and the laws of the country in their complete force and effect, are regarded by some with coldness, and by others as a punishable activity.

“Ydermere have de gamle Forfattere indskrevet Lægekunsten i de trælagtige og ingenlunde frie Kunsters Tal.”

Furthermore, the old authors had categorized the art of medicine among the slavelike and in no way free arts.

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