单词 | soldiery |
释义 | soldieryn. 1. Soldiers collectively; the military; a military class or body. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > military man > [noun] > collectively soldiery1570 soldatesquea1648 military1757 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Iii/1 Soldiourie, militia. 1580 Sir P. Sidney Let. Q. Eliz. in Misc. Wks. (1829) 245 Of the most popular nation of the world, full of soldiery, and such as used to serve without pay. 1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. F The Souldary..all flock unto him. 1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World v. ii. §11. 469/2 Leo, a Thracian, elected [Emperor] by the joint consent of Senate and Souldiery. 1745 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) VIII. 173 Do the soldiery walk as those who see themselves on the brink of eternity? 1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward II. vii. 154 These mercenaries were, of course, a fierce and rapacious soldiery. 1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. Introd. p. xix The fighting men grew more and more into a soldiery, or a class following the profession of arms for pay. 2. Military training; knowledge or science of military matters. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > war as profession or skill > [noun] wara1375 chivalrya1387 chiefalrie1548 soldiery1579 profession1581 military art1590 militia1590 warcrafta1661 1579 L. Digges & T. Digges Stratioticos 140 Sundry other principall poyntes of Souldiourie. 1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons Ded. 13 Vnder the pretence of souldiorie, and warlike Discipline. 1620 J. Ford Line of Life 55 That were..to read a Lecture of Souldierie to Hannibal the most cunningest Warriour of his time. a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1690) i. 17 For Training and Drilling is a small part of Soldiery, in respect of this last mentioned Qualification. 1738 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 204/1 If a Genius had attempted to write on such a Subject as Soldiery. 1901 ‘Linesman’ Words by Eyewitness (1902) iii. 53 Waiting in the truest spirit of soldiery. 3. attributive, as soldiery custom, soldiery discipline, etc. ΚΠ 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres ii. 24 To bring our people to more perfection in soldiarie points. 1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Gen. xxiv. 9) 188 According to a Souldery custome in cases of extremity. 1658 A. Cokayne Trappolin i. i, in Small Poems 422 I should never digest the souldiery life. a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) i. 42 The Heroical vein of Mankind runs much in the Souldiery, and couragious part of the World. 1798 W. Hutton Life & Hist. Family (1816) 98 Some soldiery jokes ensued, when our trooper dismounted, and cast a large stone with design to splash her. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1570 |
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