单词 | insurgent |
释义 | insurgentadj.n. A. adj. 1. Rising in active revolt. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > insurrection > [adjective] > insurgent rebelc1325 uprisena1400 revolting1566 revolted1578 fallen-offa1616 insurgent1814 1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xv. 234 A broad white ensign..announced that the garrison was held by the insurgent adherents of the house of Stuart. View more context for this quotation 1845 Ld. Campbell Lives Chancellors I. vi. 124 The insurgent barons dictated whatever clauses they deemed desirable. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. xi. 278 Its electric passage left her veins kindled, her soul insurgent. 1867 G. H. Lewes Hist. Philos. (ed. 3) II. 13 The insurgent mind of Abelard took up the same position. 2. Of the sea or a flood: Surging up or rushing in. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > [adjective] > flooding or overflowing delavya1400 floating1578 swimmingc1595 overfloten1601 gulf-eating?1611 overflowing1611 overrunning1611 tideful1622 inundant1629 diluvial1656 exuberant1678 diluviana1684 overflown1818 deluging1824 deluginous1835 insurgent1849 flooding1850 overstreaming1860 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > [adjective] > running high, surging, or rolling > surging in insurgent1849 inrolling1893 1849 M. Arnold Mycerinus 40 Some force..Bears earth, and heaven, and men, and gods along Like the broad volume of the insurgent Nile. 1893 N. Gale Requiescam in Country Muse The loss..Of no more hearing rebel waves Insurgent on the shore. B. n. One who rises in revolt against constituted authority; a rebel who is not recognized as a belligerent. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > insurrection > [noun] > insurgent inriser1382 rebeller1398 riser1422 rebelc1425 rebelliona1460 rioter1543 revolter1576 outbreakerc1650 upriser1656 surgent1657 insurrector1667 insurrectionera1734 insurgent1766 insurrectionist1845 reb1861 insurrectionary1893 insurrecto1907 1766 W. Falconer Demagogue 22 His sanction will dismay, And bid th' insurgents tremble and obey. 1801 Duke of Wellington Mem. Seringapatam in Dispatches (1837) I. 348 In regard to the insurgents in Malabar, the war against them cannot be carried on at all without assistance. 1812 G. Chalmers Hist. View Domest. Econ. Great Brit. & Ireland 164 [Why] it was, that the vast strength of Britain did not beat down the colonial insurgents, not in one campaign, but in three. 1851 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy in 1848 133 He acceded to all the immediate demands of the insurgents. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < adj.n.1766 |
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