| 单词 | under a person's standard |
| 释义 | > as lemmasunder a person's standard d. In various phrases in which the standard is taken as typifying an army or its commanders, e.g. under the standard of: serving in the army of; under a person's standard: in a person's army; to join the standard of: to join the army of. Now chiefly used in historical contexts. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military service > [adverb] > serving under specific standard under a spear1297 under the standard ofc1500 c1500 Melusine (1895) 164 Your vassall & seruaunt shal I euer be vnder the standart of your gouernance. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 297 As Armies at the call Of Trumpet..Troop to thir Standard . View more context for this quotation 1737 R. Glover Leonidas i. 155 They with dread Will shrink before your standards. 1840 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VII. lvii. 241 In a short time he..had a body of more than 2000 horse under his standard. 1902 G. S. Whitmore Last Maori War iii. 31 There was a danger of the whole of the West Coast tribes making common cause against the Government, and joining the standard of Titokowaru. 2009 Cahiers du Monde Russe 50 477 Khmel'nyts'kyi's army was disintegrating... His Crimean Tatar allies were leaving him—just 300 of them remained under his standard. < as lemmas |
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