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单词 to call to arms
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to call (also summon) to arms
i. to call (also summon) to arms and variants: to summon to prepare for battle or armed conflict; also figurative.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [verb (transitive)] > levy or mobilize
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to call to account1434
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to call to arms1592
compound1614
re-embody1685
mobilize1853
remobilize1886
1592 tr. F. Du Jon Apocalypsis (Rev. xvi. 13) 63 Continually day & night prouoking & calling forth to armes [L. conclamantes arma].
1596 R. Johnson Famous Hist. Seauen Champions 125 The ecchoes of siluer Trumpets summoned them to Armes.
1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης x. 92 The Inhabitants of Yorkshire and other Counties were call'd to Arms.
1758 E. Spelman tr. Dionysius of Halicarnassus Rom. Antiq. IV. x. 211 The consuls..called all the citizens to arms [Gk. ἐκάλουν τοὺς πολίτας ἅπαντας ἐπὶ τὰ ὅπλα].
1800 tr. L.-P. Anquetil Summ. Universal Hist. VIII. 238 A chain of signals..summon all the men to arms [Fr. mettent tous les hommes sous les armes].
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 192 Calling the old soldiers of the Commonwealth to arms.
1930 Alton (Illinois) Evening Tel. 4 Sept. 2/1 The Republican motor caravan calling its party workers to arms against the ‘reawakened’ Democrats.
1965 C. Hibbert Garibaldi & his Enemies i. iv. 50 The bells of the Capitol and Montecitorio summoned them to arms.
2010 C. T. de la Peña Empty Pleasures v. 171 Calling consumers to arms through local media.
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