单词 | presidiary |
释义 | † presidiaryadj.n. Obsolete. A. adj. Of, relating to, or serving as a garrison, garrisoning; having a garrison, fortified. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > [adjective] > defended > garrisoned presidiate1543 presidial1598 presidiary1599 garrisoneda1657 society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > group with special function or duty > [adjective] > garrison presidial1598 presidiary1599 1599 J. Hayward 1st Pt. Henrie IIII 57 But the Romane Conquerors kept not their presidiarie Souldiers in idle garrison. 1603 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Hist. Descr. Worlde 242 The number of soldiers in all the presidiarie places of Spaine is 8000. 1619 J. Dyke Counterpoison 4 A martiall and presidiary guarding of a mans selfe. 1645 J. Howell in Epistolae Ho-Elianae I. i. xxv. 48 Having nere upon fiftie presidiary walld Towns in their hands for caution, they have power to disturb France when they please. 1711 R. Molesworth tr. F. Hotman Franco-Gallia (1721) 23 Those Germans which were transplanted by the Emperor Frederick the IId, into..Naples and Sicily, and establish'd there as a presidiary Colony, were called Franks. 1757 J. H. Grose Voy. E.-Indies iv. 61 The presidiary force of the island [sc. Bombay]. 1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire IV. xxxv. 197 Presidiary cohorts were stationed at every threatened point of attack. 1875 C. Merivale Gen. Hist. Rome lxxvii. 647 Britain had been nominally recovered, but the presidiary legions had been withdrawn. B. n. A member of a garrison, a guard. Also figurative.In quot. 1745: a reserve, a standby. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > guard guard1412 presidiary1623 the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > [noun] > something held in reserve second string1643 presidiary1745 standby1782 fallback1860 back-up1952 1623 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. VII. O.T. xix. 486 Not one of those heauenly Presidiaries strucke a stroke for the Prophet. 1653 T. Urquhart Logopandecteision v. 4 The sordid and corrupt Commissaries, with the ravenous Neoptoleman Presidiaries, did grinde the faces of my poor men, and suck the very blood out of my estate. 1716 P. H. Stanhope in Visct. Mahon Hist. of Eng. (1853) I. vii. 229 God knows how far we may depend upon either of the auxiliary presidiaries, such is the stupidity and knavery of both those Courts. 1745 tr. L. J. M. Columella Of Husbandry iii. xvi Some cuttings must be planted as presidiaries [L. praesidii causa] for the regular vines. 1899 Sandusky (Ohio) Star 22 Feb. 3/3 The defenders of the Philippines in your command will attack the guard at Bilibid and liberate the prisoners and ‘presidiaries’, and having accomplished this they will be armed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.n.1599 |
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