单词 | to bid, offer, refuse, accept, take battle |
释义 | > as lemmasto †bid, offer, refuse, accept, take (arch.) battle 11. In obvious phrases, as to have, keep, make, smite, strike, battle (all obsolete); to †bid, offer, refuse, accept, take (arch.) battle; to join battle; also, to do battle, to fight; to give battle, to attack, engage; to pitch a battle (cf. pitched battle at sense 1b). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > contend in battle or give battle [verb (intransitive)] fightc900 to bid, offer, refuse, accept, take (arch.) battle1297 to do battle1297 to give battle1297 strive13.. battle1330 to instore a battle1382 fettlec1400 pugnec1425 toilc1425 to deliver battle1433 conflict?a1475 bargain1487 mellaya1500 liverc1500 to come out1511 field1535 combat1589 to manage arms1590 sway1590 society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > contend in battle or give battle [verb (intransitive)] > join or meet in battle to come togetherOE to lay togetherc1275 smitec1275 to have, keep, make, smite, strike, battle1297 joustc1330 meetc1330 copec1350 assemblea1375 semblea1375 coup?a1400 to fight togethera1400 strikea1400 joinc1400 to join the battle1455 to commit battle?a1475 rencounter1497 to set ina1500 to pitch a battlea1513 concura1522 rescounter1543 scontre1545 journey1572 shock1575 yoke1581 to give in1610 mix1697 to engage a combat1855 to run (or ride) a-tilt1862 society > armed hostility > war > wage war [verb (intransitive)] warc1230 to make warc1275 warraya1300 battle1330 hostey?a1400 to make (a) fighta1400 to have, keep, make, smite, strike, battle1542 warfare1565 operate1781 society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > contend in battle or give battle [verb (intransitive)] > refuse battle to bid, offer, refuse, accept, take (arch.) battle1855 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 514 Hii mette hom atte laste..at Lincolne..& smite there an bataile. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 471 Aȝeyn him ȝaf he batail grym. 1460 in Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1866) 185 Þe world biddiþ me bataile blijf. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur i. iii His enemies..did a great battle upon his men. 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 102 They had batayll togeder. 1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 63 Preamble Divers..rered Warre, and made Bataill ayenst him. a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) ii. xvi. sig. p.viii William Conquerour Pight a stronge batell. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 336 The battail was kept in Cherronea. ?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 41 To make battel vpon the Sabboth day. 1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xiv. 8 They joyned battell with them, in the vale of Siddim. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) v. iv. 66 Here pitch our Battaile, hence we will not budge. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) ii. iv. 54 When Cressy Battell fatally was strucke. View more context for this quotation 1656 H. More Antidote Atheism ii. viii. 117 He did bid battel to the very fiercest of them. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 82 Before the Battel joins. View more context for this quotation 1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 132 Shall we give Battle to the Imperialists, or not? 1847 Maxwell Vict. Brit. Armies 270 He advanced with sixty thousand men, determined to offer battle. 1851 E. Creasy Fifteen Decisive Battles 58 Miltiades immediately joined battle and gained the victory. 1851 E. Creasy Fifteen Decisive Battles 185 He should abstain from giving or taking battel. 1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! (1878) xxxi. 496 The Spaniard had refused battle. 1881 R. L. Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque 85 We must strive and do battle for the truth. < as lemmas |
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