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单词 false muster
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false muster
false muster n. Military the inclusion in a muster-roll of people who are not available for service; fraudulent presentation at a muster; an instance of this; frequently figurative in early use.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > ceremonial > [noun] > muster > fraudulent presentation at
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun] > instance of > in giving numbers
false muster1653
society > armed hostility > military organization > [noun] > muster-roll or -list > incorrect or fraudulent list
false muster1752
1653 Ld. Wariston & J. Guthrie Causes of Lords Wrath against Scotl. 38 What interverting of Levies, what false Musters.
1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 197 What with Death, and running away, and what with the Captains false Musters, they hardly arose to that Number.
1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 476 It is this great Plague of the World Deception, which takes wrong Measures, and makes false Musters almost in every Thing.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. False Muster, is when such Men pass in Review, as are not actually listed as Soldiers.
1752 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. (1756) No. 17. i. 116 There are besides several Faggots, and False-musters, which the General thinks proper to connive at.
1790 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) IV. 493 Still I complain of false musters.
1801 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) I. 326 Our friend, the Commissary, has been guilty of making false musters, as appears in the clearest manner.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. viii. 274 He excelled in deceiving the government with false musters and accounts.
1904 Athenæum 10 Sept. 339/3 Dismissed for dishonest greed—for suttling, false musters, or turning their ships into merchantmen.
1980 Mil. Affairs Dec. 172 The marine officers ‘corrupted’ the naval officers by ‘introducing’ them to the pernicious practices of mis-ratings and false musters.
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