单词 | warfare |
释义 | warfaren. 1. A going to war (cf. 2); the action of carrying on, or engaging in, war; the act or state of conflict; military life or service. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military service > [noun] knightshipa1175 armsc1300 knighthoodc1384 warfarec1485 service1549 soldiership1561 soldierfare1579 military service1586 stipend1604 caska1616 milice1635 lance1641 militia1641 soldiering1643 camp1725 military1757 society > armed hostility > war > [noun] > action of waging war warrayinga1300 warring13.. warfarec1485 war-makingc1485 warfaring1598 waginga1674 levying1769 belligerence1814 war-fighting1965 c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 107 Out of his lordis land suld pas nouthir hors na men till othir contreis jn armes na werefare. c1530 A. Barclay Egloges iii. sig. Niij v For nought is in warrefare, saue care and mysery. 1611 Bible (King James) 1 Sam. xxviii. 1 The Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare . View more context for this quotation 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxviii. 166 The most common Souldier, may demand the due wages of his warrefare, as a debt. 1841 J. F. Cooper Deerslayer I. vii. 112 He was as yet unpractised in the ruthless expedients of savage warfare. 1900 Longman's Mag. Mar. 440 Having acquired..a brevet colonelcy in Indian frontier warfare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > [adverb] in the field?1473 a warfare1483 on (also upon) commando1824 society > armed hostility > war > wage war [verb (intransitive)] > go to war to take the plainc1380 to go to war or warsc1450 to take the field1482 to go (etc.) on warfare1483 to pass (forth) in warfare1483 field1535 to go out1548 to go to the war(s)1600 to be (also go) on the warpath1841 to wash one's spears1892 society > armed hostility > war > wage (war) [verb (transitive)] > send to war to send a warfare1483 1483 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 144 Richard Awrey..ȝede forthe a warfare in a schypp of hys owne. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Cor. ix. 7 Who goeth a warfare [τίς στρατεύεται] eny tyme att his awne cost? a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. K.iv Torquate her housband was in Asie a warre fare. 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. 94 Þir ȝoung men war ordanit to be reddy to pas in werefare aganis þare Inemyis. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 201v Alexander hauing taken a viage on warrefare into Asia. 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 24 He whiche had maried a wyfe, the same yeare shoulde not be forced to go on warrefaire. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cclxxv Not only at home, but in the campe also, and a warfare. 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xliv. 1) i. f. 170 Rather yt we should go a warfare under the crosse. 1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. 137 What iniurie doth the Prince to the Captaine, that sendes him a warfare, if he makes him sure, to haue the victory? 3. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ 1549 E. Allen tr. L. Juda Paraphr. Reuelacion S. John vii, f. 9–12, in M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II So long as they remayne in the warrefare of this transitorye lyfe. 1657 T. Aylesbury Treat. Confession of Sinne 348 Nor can there in this spiritual warfare be better weapons than prayers and tears. 1746 A. Pope Verses Upon M—— 3 Who, with herself, and others from her Birth, Finds all her Life one Warfare upon Earth. 1807 Salmagundi 15 Oct. 327 All the various artillery of fashionable warfare. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 194 They are most skilful in legal warfare. 1902 Chambers's Jrnl. June 391/1 It is prepared to spend vast sums of money and to employ every tactic permitted in modern commercial ‘warfare’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † warfarev. Obsolete. intransitive. To wage war; to take part in war; to serve in the field. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ 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 1565 T. Stapleton tr. Bede Hist. Church Eng. iii. xviii. f. 94 Wherein having with much devotion warfared a longe time to God. 1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. Concl. f. 427 Euery sort and sexe that warfare in the fielde of humaine life. 1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. xxiii. 40 Yet with these shippes we make them muche more daungerous, robbing and warrefairinge in them, no otherwise then we do in the maine lande. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Militare, to warrefarre, to follow the warres. 1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 369 A certaine Germane warfaring in Italy. DerivativesΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > [noun] wyec900 rinkeOE earlOE manlOE champion?c1225 warrer?c1225 drightmanc1275 here-dringc1275 here-gumec1275 here-kempec1275 wal-kempc1275 warrior1297 battlerc1300 fighterc1300 battle-wrighta1400 man-of-war1449 frekec1475 war-manc1485 combatant1489 Mars1565 warfarer1591 combater1598 Mavortian1598 brave1601 fire-eater1792 war-wolf1810 war-hound1812 war-dog1846 toa1860 Mavors1868 fightist1877 ninja1964 simba1964 1591 J. Eliot tr. B. de Loque Disc. Warre 31 Thus much for the rules of warfarers. ˈwarˌfaring n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > [noun] > action of waging war warrayinga1300 warring13.. warfarec1485 war-makingc1485 warfaring1598 waginga1674 levying1769 belligerence1814 war-fighting1965 1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Heautontimoroumenos Argt., in Terence in Eng. 192 Menedemus..forced his sonne Clinia..to goe a warrefaring. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso (1674) i. xxxv. 44 His indiscreet way of warfaring in Asia. 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes ii. 103 During these wild warfarings and strugglings. 1876 W. Morris Story of Sigurd iii. 196 The Burg of the Niblung people and the heart of their warfaring. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1483v.1565 |
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