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单词 to put through his facings
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to put (a person) through his (also her, etc.) facings
a. Military. The action of facing or turning in another direction. facing-about: the action of turning in the opposite direction, an instance of this. Also to put (a person) through his (also her, etc.) facings, to go through one's (also the) facings (now chiefly historical). Also figurative and in extended use.
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1635 W. Barriffe Mil. Discipline ix. 28 Facing is a particular turning of the Aspect from one part to another.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. ii. §11 After many encounters and facings about, they fell into their severall troops.
1690 S. Sewall Diary 24 Mar. (1878) I. 316 I goe into the field, pray with the South Company, Exercise them in a few Distances, Facings, Doublings.
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 246 Their facing about..put them into a great Disorder.
1792 Rules & Regulations His Majesty's Forces i. 8 In going through the facings, the left heel never quits the ground.
1825 A. L. S. D. de Fonseca Theory Infantry Movement I. i. v. 208 To the right about, to the left about,..these..operate like the facings about, and place every individual to front his former rear.
1835 Ann. Reg. 1834 Chron. 103/1 It is usual for that officer [sc. an orderly-sergeant] to desire a soldier to step from the ranks and go through his facings, if he suspects him to be intoxicated.
1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. xli. 356 Grace, not at all unwillingly, was put through her facings.
1918 E. S. Farrow Dict. Mil. Terms 1 About Face, one of the facings in the school of the soldier, executed by facing to the rear, turning to the right.
a1930 N. Munro in B. D. Osborne & R. Armstrong Erchie & Jimmy Swan (1993) ii. iv. 333 ‘That's Bob Fulton, my customer, puttin' them through their facin's for the Sabbath,’ reflected Mr Swan.
1954 W. Faulkner Fable 132 Nor could even the aviator stationed and motionless in the hard blue wind have said exactly where among them the facing-about began.
1963 R. Ferrell in Amer. Secretaries of State XI. 272 The facing about was a noble gesture, but no more, if only because Adolf Hitler already was Chancellor of Germany and beginning to undermine the entire.
1988 J. Prebble King's Jaunt iii. 212 He was drilling them regularly, teaching them to march, wheel, and go through their facings with astonishing skill.
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