单词 | aid-major |
释义 | > as lemmasaid-major aid-major n. [after French aide-major (1655 in the passage translated in quot. 1670, or earlier)] Military (now historical) = adjutant n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer according to function > [noun] > aide-de-camp or adjutant corporal of the field1591 general-adjutant1632 adjutant1641 adjutant general1644 agitant1644 aide-de-camp1670 aid-major1670 Adj.1708 aid1761 Adjt.1763 aide1776 D.A.A.G.1899 AG1913 D.A.G.- 1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon iii. xii. 632 The Office of Aide Major [Fr. la Charge d'Aide Major] to the Regiment of Guards. 1791 J. B. Warren View of Naval Force Great-Britain ix. 160 The aid-major of the division shall be obliged to establish regularity in the different exercises. 1848 Colburn's United Service Mag. July 364 A body..able to be raised to six hundred and forty by help of the Aid-Majors. 1997 G. K. Watt Burning of Valleys v. 218 General Van Rensselaer and his two aid-majors rode at the head of the centre. < as lemmas |
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