单词 | officered |
释义 | officeredadj. Supplied with or commanded by an officer or officers; having officers. Usually preceded by qualifying word or affix, as well, ill, etc. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > [adjective] > officered officered1691 1691 Let. to Friend 3 The rest of the World..will share in the Burthen, and more than share too, unless the Officer'd Parliament will quit the Pentions these Impositions must pay. 1714 J. Oldmixon Detection of Sophistry Secret Hist. White Staff: Pt. II 8 The Report..of the new rais'd and new Officer'd Troops was true. 1820 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 198 The English force in and about New York was well disciplined, well officered,..and in high spirits. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xx. 460 An ill drilled and ill officered militia. 1938 Foreign Service Feb. 29/2 A school modern in every foot of spacious arrangement, every course offered by the well-officered faculty. 1970 Times 3 Apr. (Arab League Suppl.) p. xi/1 The airport at Salala, where the Sultan of Muscat and Oman lives, protected by a battalion of British-officered troops. 1991 A. Beevor Inside Brit. Army (rev. ed.) iv. 56 The Royal Signals, the most seriously under-officered of all corps. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1691 |
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