| 单词 | set battle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasset battle 4. (In set battle, set field) = pitched adj.2 2. Now rare (cf. sense 5). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [adjective] > types of armed encounter openeOE set battle1487 unbloody1544 pight1562 pitched1569 round1601 steadfast1623 strucka1625 running1651 stationary1737 stricken field1820 close quarters1871 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) viii. 367 The king, in set battalȝe..Vencust him vith a gret menȝe. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xii. l. 9 Off set battaillis fyve he dyscumfyt haill. 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Piiiiv In sett fylde the wyues doo stande euerye one by here owne husbandes syde. 1572 J. Sadler tr. Vegetius Foure Bks. Martiall Policye Pref. *. ii. b Whether they should fight in skirmishe, or set battel. 1665 S. Pepys Diary 17 Feb. (1972) VI. 38 He hath fought more set fields then any man in England hath done. 1773 J. Hampton in tr. Polybius Gen. Hist. IV. Contents xiv The Carthaginians..are defeated in a set engagement. < as lemmas |
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