| 单词 | man-in-arms |
| 释义 | > as lemmasman-in-arms man-in-arms n. now historical a soldier, a warrior; a (heavily) armed man; cf. man-of-arms n., man-at-arms n. ΚΠ c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 65 So od men in armys & egur to fight. 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. Hv I have a hundred thousand men in armes. 1644 R. Symonds Diary (1859) 71 Another huge large stone, three pictures of men in armes scratcht upon the stone. 1675 London Gaz. No. 1017/1 King Philip the Indian Segamore of those parts, had raised about six hundred Men in Arms. 1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 174 We all fir'd, some at the Gunner, and others at the Men in Arms in the front of the Church. 1794 J. P. Andrews Hist. Great Brit. connected with Chronol. Europe II. 75 Mahomet had 400,000 men in arms around the city. 1805 Ann. Rev. 3 240/2 A shire is too large a division for brigading together the resident men in arms. 1876 Ld. Tennyson Harold v. i. 139 Have we not broken Wales and Norseland? slain..a mightier man-in-arms Than William. 1923 Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 22 364 Wars and the struggles of men in arms. 2003 Independent on Sunday 18 May (Life Etc. section) 19/3 Malta possessed less than 4,000 men in arms to protect against an Italian invasion. < as lemmas |
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