单词 | military-minded |
释义 | > as lemmasmilitary-minded military-minded adj. [compare minded adj.2 2] inclined or well able to think in a military way; having a military caste of mind. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > military man > [adjective] > military-minded military-minded1897 1897 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 26 242 Against this unreasonable claim, the Wyandots protested, and their protecting government, then represented by Sir Francis Head, promptly settled the matter in a whimsically arbitrary fashion, characteristic of this military-minded ruler. 1910 W. James Mem. & Stud. (1911) xi. 288 Commonwealths fit only for contempt, and liable to invite attack whenever a centre of crystallization for military-minded enterprise gets formed anywhere in their neighbourhood. 1987 M. S. Anderson Europe in Eighteenth Cent. (ed. 3) 222 Even a relatively liberal and progressive administrator like Saint-Germain was extremely unwilling to grant commissions to parvenus at the expense of poor but military-minded nobles. < as lemmas |
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