† legionryn.
Obsolete.
Legions collectively. Also: a body of legions. Also figurative.
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1827 R. Pollok Course of Time II. vii. 81 To drive away From earth the dark infernal legionry Of superstition, ignorance, and hell.
1840 Family Mag. 7 99/1 Each division of the Roman army had its peculiar standard. That of a legionry was a silver eagle with expanded wings, surmounting a spear, and grasping a thunder-bolt.
1857 Hutchings' Calif. Mag. Sept. 106/1 Never, since the Roman legionry shadowed the earth with their eagles..has such a gorgeous treasury been opened to the astonished world.
1887 S. M. Jelley Voice of Labor ii. 28 Begotten in myth, fed upon the ferocity of the wolf, led by intellect of man, she grew to be at last the palladium of law and the legionry war.
1914 Q. Jrnl. Univ. N. Dakota Jan. 116 The promontoried shore Charged by the legionry of lunar tides.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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