yeomanryn.

Brit.

/ˈjəʊmənri/, U.S.

/ˈjoʊmənri/

Forms: see yeoman n.; also Middle English yemandry, yomandrye, 1500s–1600s yeomandrie, yeomandry, (1600s–1700s yeomantry).

Etymology: < yeoman n. + -ry suffix.

I. A company or body of yeomen, and related uses.

a. The body of yeomen or small landed proprietors, yeomen collectively; †a company of yeomen.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [noun] > company of yeomen

yeomanry1477

fellowshipping1486

the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > owner > landowner > small landowner > collectively

yeomanry1477

statespeople1887

statesfolk1902

1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 49 The nombre of his knightes that were comonly of his retenew..were ccc .xiij. M. wythout yomanrye & other men necessarie to his warres.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) iv. 386 Schir Iohne the hastyngis,..With knychtis of full mekill pryde, With squyaris and gude ȝhemanry [1489 Adv. ȝemanry].

a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 53 Yf the yomanry of englond were not, in tyme of warre, we schold be in schrode case.

1549 H. Latimer 1st Serm. before Kynges Grace sig. Diiii^v Suche procedynges..do intend plainly, to make the yomanry slauery, and the Cleargie shauery.

1607 G. Markham Cavelarice Ded. sig. 3 The three greate Columbes of this Empire: the Nobilitie, the Gentrie, and Yeomanrie of greate Brittaine.

1692 R. Meeke Diary 2 Sept. (1874) 54 My father was born in a very mean house: my mother in a comely hall... I am a branch of Yeomanry by the father, of gentility by my mother.

1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 103 The Yeomandry trudge on honestly in their several Vocations.

1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub x. 184 The Clergy, and Gentry, and Yeomantry of this Land.

1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 67 The free yeomanry, and the youth of the towns, have an eye for the right, and a heart for the true.

1868 J. E. T. Rogers Man. Polit. Econ. xiii. 168 A hardy and prosperous yeomanry, who either purchased the land in parcels, or bargained to work it with their own capital.

b. The general body of freemen of a livery company. Obsolete exc. Historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > one possessing freedom of a city or company > body of

yeomanry1497

1497 in J. Nicholl Comp. Ironm. (1866) 50 The yemenry of this yo^r worshipfull felishipe of this craffte of Iermongers.

1532 in J. Nicholl Comp. Ironm. (1866) 54 The..wardens of the yemanry of Iremongeres.

1578 in East Anglian June (1910) 275 [Provision is made for two] banketts [to friends and to the] companye of yeomanrye.

1637 Decree Starre-Chamber conc. Printing xix. sig. F2 Euery Master-printer of the Yeomanry of the Company may haue one Apprentice.

†2.

a. A company of yeomen or attendants. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > collective or company of

hirdiferec1275

train1541

yeomanryc1660

entourage1850

surrounding1877

surroundings1894

c1660 Robin Hood & Beggar (single sheet) ii. verso And Robin took these Brethren good To be of his Yomandriee.

b. The yeomen of the guard. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warriors collectively > lifeguard or bodyguard > [noun] > specific

praetorya1387

pretoira1393

Switzer1591

Scots Guard1602

palatines1623

Swiss guardc1660

yeomanry1673

immortal1803

household brigade1814

Varangian Guard1831

1673 A. Marvell Coll. Poems 254 [It is] Dishonourable to the Nation He should have any other Guards but the Yeomanry.

3. A volunteer cavalry force in the British army, originally formed at the time of the French revolution, and consisting chiefly of men of the yeomanry class or status; first embodied in 1794 (Act 34 Geo. III, c. 31). The force has now been amalgamated with the Volunteers to form the Territorial Army, which has five Yeomanry units. The full designation was the Yeomanry Cavalry (see yeomanry cavalry n. at Compounds), but was subsequently (1908) the Yeomanry. In 1899 the formation of a new corps was provided for, entitled the Imperial Yeomanry, recruited for service in the Boer War (1899–1902) from the yeomanry, the volunteers, and civilians; this title was subsequently extended to the original yeomanry, and was retained until 1908.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > cavalry > other British

Ironside1648

yeomanry1794

yeomanry cavalry1794

yeos1831

1794 [see yeomanry cavalry n. at Compounds]. 1798 [see yeomanry cavalry n. at Compounds].

c1800 A. Young in Autobiog. (1898) 206 I sat at dinner by a gentleman of great property, captain of a troop of yeomanry.

1802 Act 42 Geo. III c. 66 (title) An Act to enable his Majesty to avail himself of the Offers of certain Yeomanry and Volunteer Corps to continue their Services.

1828 W. Scott Jrnl. 18 Mar. (1941) 210 I dined at the Club of the Selkirkshire yeomanry, now disbanded.

1839 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire (ed. 2) II. iv. iii. 124 The management of the militia, yeomanry, and other domestic forces, is regulated by the provisions of various statutes.

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. Introd. 10 Their notion of Reform was a confused combination of rick-burners, trades-unions, Nottingham riots, and in general whatever required the calling-out of the yeomanry.

1899 Daily News 30 Dec. 8/5 No mounted corps from this country will be accepted for service in South Africa except as part of the Imperial Yeomanry.

II. Senses relating to the condition or characteristics of a yeoman.

†4. The condition of a yeoman; yeomanhood. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > yeoman > condition of

yeomanryc1386

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific ranks of common people > [noun] > yeoman > condition, position, or station of

yeomanryc1386

yeomanhood1889

c1386 G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale 29 For Symkyn wolde no wyf, as he sayde, But if she were wel ynorissed and a mayde, To sauen his estaat of yomanrye [v.r. yemanrye].

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Roture, yeomanrie; the estate, condition, or calling of such as are not of gentle bloud.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xi. 172 They, of all England, most to ancient customes cleaue, Their Yeomanry and still endeuoured to vphold.

†5. Something pertaining to or characteristic of a yeoman.

a. Speech befitting a (good) yeoman, homely or honest speech. Obsolete.

ΘΠ

the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > plain or straightforward language

plain Englisha1438

plain languagec1450

yeomanryc1500

plain (later also downright) Dunstable1578

c1500 Robin Hood & Potter xxiii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1888) III. v. 110/2 ‘Be mey trowet, thou seys soyt,’ seyde Roben, ‘Thow seys god yemenrey.’

1592 Arden of Feversham iv. ii. 38 Fran. And, sirra, as we go, let vs haue som more of your bolde yeomandry. Fer. Nay, by my troth, sir, but flat knauery.

b. Yeoman's dress. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > for specific people > other

knight-weed1340

servile habita1425

bolster1552

yeomanry1597

court-dress1797

1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. iii. i. 53 Husbanding it in work-day yeomanrie.

Compounds

yeomanry cavalry n. = sense 3.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > cavalry > other British

Ironside1648

yeomanry1794

yeomanry cavalry1794

yeos1831

1794 in Q. L. Yeom. Cav. Worc. (1914) 5 The proposed Corps of Yeomanry Cavalry for the County of Worcester.

1798 Act 38 Geo. III c. 51 (title) An Act for authorizing the billetting such Troops of Yeomanry Cavalry as may be desirous of assembling for the Purpose of being trained together.

1825 M'Watt (title) Letters to Officers and Privates of the Berwickshire Yeomanry Cavalry.

1886 H. Graham (title) Annals of the Yeomanry Cavalry of Wiltshire, a History of the Prince of Wales' Own Royal Regiment.

yeomanry corps n.

c1800 A. Young in Autobiog. (1898) 206 The undisputed origin of all the yeomanry corps in the kingdom.

yeomanry cut n.

1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf i, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 26 With a saddle of the yeomanry cut, and a double-bitted military bridle.

yeomanry dress n.

1877 ‘Mrs. Forrester’ Mignon xviii How handsome he looks in his yeomanry dress.

yeomanry duty n.

1868 Chambers's Encycl. X. 315/2 The horses employed on yeomanry duty.

yeomanry family n.

1885 J. Gillow Literary & Biogr. Hist. Eng. Catholics II. 47 The Dennetts, a Lancashire yeomanry family.

yeomanry horse n.

1833 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) II. 426 The landlords..have martial law in their view before they will give up the Corn Laws; they fat their yeomanry horses for that very chase.

yeomanry man n.

1884 R. Jefferies Life of Fields 132 There are yeomanry-men still living who remember how they rode about at night after the rioters.

yeomanry officer n.

1902 V. Jacob Sheep-stealers ix The yeomanry officer who had been present at the riot.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	yeomanry
释义	yeomanryn. Brit. /ˈjəʊmənri/, U.S. /ˈjoʊmənri/ Forms: see yeoman n.; also Middle English yemandry, yomandrye, 1500s–1600s yeomandrie, yeomandry, (1600s–1700s yeomantry). Etymology: < yeoman n. + -ry suffix. I. A company or body of yeomen, and related uses. 1. a. The body of yeomen or small landed proprietors, yeomen collectively; †a company of yeomen. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [noun] > company of yeomen yeomanry1477 fellowshipping1486 the mind > possession > possessor > [noun] > owner > landowner > small landowner > collectively yeomanry1477 statespeople1887 statesfolk1902 1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 49 The nombre of his knightes that were comonly of his retenew..were ccc .xiij. M. wythout yomanrye & other men necessarie to his warres. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) iv. 386 Schir Iohne the hastyngis,..With knychtis of full mekill pryde, With squyaris and gude ȝhemanry [1489 Adv. ȝemanry]. a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 53 Yf the yomanry of englond were not, in tyme of warre, we schold be in schrode case. 1549 H. Latimer 1st Serm. before Kynges Grace sig. Diiii^v Suche procedynges..do intend plainly, to make the yomanry slauery, and the Cleargie shauery. 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice Ded. sig. 3 The three greate Columbes of this Empire: the Nobilitie, the Gentrie, and Yeomanrie of greate Brittaine. 1692 R. Meeke Diary 2 Sept. (1874) 54 My father was born in a very mean house: my mother in a comely hall... I am a branch of Yeomanry by the father, of gentility by my mother. 1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 103 The Yeomandry trudge on honestly in their several Vocations. 1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub x. 184 The Clergy, and Gentry, and Yeomantry of this Land. 1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 67 The free yeomanry, and the youth of the towns, have an eye for the right, and a heart for the true. 1868 J. E. T. Rogers Man. Polit. Econ. xiii. 168 A hardy and prosperous yeomanry, who either purchased the land in parcels, or bargained to work it with their own capital. b. The general body of freemen of a livery company. Obsolete exc. Historical. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > one possessing freedom of a city or company > body of yeomanry1497 1497 in J. Nicholl Comp. Ironm. (1866) 50 The yemenry of this yo^r worshipfull felishipe of this craffte of Iermongers. 1532 in J. Nicholl Comp. Ironm. (1866) 54 The..wardens of the yemanry of Iremongeres. 1578 in East Anglian June (1910) 275 [Provision is made for two] banketts [to friends and to the] companye of yeomanrye. 1637 Decree Starre-Chamber conc. Printing xix. sig. F2 Euery Master-printer of the Yeomanry of the Company may haue one Apprentice. †2. a. A company of yeomen or attendants. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > collective or company of hirdiferec1275 train1541 yeomanryc1660 entourage1850 surrounding1877 surroundings1894 c1660 Robin Hood & Beggar (single sheet) ii. verso And Robin took these Brethren good To be of his Yomandriee. b. The yeomen of the guard. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warriors collectively > lifeguard or bodyguard > [noun] > specific praetorya1387 pretoira1393 Switzer1591 Scots Guard1602 palatines1623 Swiss guardc1660 yeomanry1673 immortal1803 household brigade1814 Varangian Guard1831 1673 A. Marvell Coll. Poems 254 [It is] Dishonourable to the Nation He should have any other Guards but the Yeomanry. 3. A volunteer cavalry force in the British army, originally formed at the time of the French revolution, and consisting chiefly of men of the yeomanry class or status; first embodied in 1794 (Act 34 Geo. III, c. 31). The force has now been amalgamated with the Volunteers to form the Territorial Army, which has five Yeomanry units. The full designation was the Yeomanry Cavalry (see yeomanry cavalry n. at Compounds), but was subsequently (1908) the Yeomanry. In 1899 the formation of a new corps was provided for, entitled the Imperial Yeomanry, recruited for service in the Boer War (1899–1902) from the yeomanry, the volunteers, and civilians; this title was subsequently extended to the original yeomanry, and was retained until 1908. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > cavalry > other British Ironside1648 yeomanry1794 yeomanry cavalry1794 yeos1831 1794 [see yeomanry cavalry n. at Compounds]. 1798 [see yeomanry cavalry n. at Compounds]. c1800 A. Young in Autobiog. (1898) 206 I sat at dinner by a gentleman of great property, captain of a troop of yeomanry. 1802 Act 42 Geo. III c. 66 (title) An Act to enable his Majesty to avail himself of the Offers of certain Yeomanry and Volunteer Corps to continue their Services. 1828 W. Scott Jrnl. 18 Mar. (1941) 210 I dined at the Club of the Selkirkshire yeomanry, now disbanded. 1839 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire (ed. 2) II. iv. iii. 124 The management of the militia, yeomanry, and other domestic forces, is regulated by the provisions of various statutes. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. Introd. 10 Their notion of Reform was a confused combination of rick-burners, trades-unions, Nottingham riots, and in general whatever required the calling-out of the yeomanry. 1899 Daily News 30 Dec. 8/5 No mounted corps from this country will be accepted for service in South Africa except as part of the Imperial Yeomanry. II. Senses relating to the condition or characteristics of a yeoman. †4. The condition of a yeoman; yeomanhood. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > yeoman > condition of yeomanryc1386 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific ranks of common people > [noun] > yeoman > condition, position, or station of yeomanryc1386 yeomanhood1889 c1386 G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale 29 For Symkyn wolde no wyf, as he sayde, But if she were wel ynorissed and a mayde, To sauen his estaat of yomanrye [v.r. yemanrye]. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Roture, yeomanrie; the estate, condition, or calling of such as are not of gentle bloud. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xi. 172 They, of all England, most to ancient customes cleaue, Their Yeomanry and still endeuoured to vphold. †5. Something pertaining to or characteristic of a yeoman. a. Speech befitting a (good) yeoman, homely or honest speech. Obsolete. ΘΠ the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > plain or straightforward language plain Englisha1438 plain languagec1450 yeomanryc1500 plain (later also downright) Dunstable1578 c1500 Robin Hood & Potter xxiii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1888) III. v. 110/2 ‘Be mey trowet, thou seys soyt,’ seyde Roben, ‘Thow seys god yemenrey.’ 1592 Arden of Feversham iv. ii. 38 Fran. And, sirra, as we go, let vs haue som more of your bolde yeomandry. Fer. Nay, by my troth, sir, but flat knauery. b. Yeoman's dress. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > for specific people > other knight-weed1340 servile habita1425 bolster1552 yeomanry1597 court-dress1797 1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. iii. i. 53 Husbanding it in work-day yeomanrie. Compounds yeomanry cavalry n. = sense 3. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > cavalry > other British Ironside1648 yeomanry1794 yeomanry cavalry1794 yeos1831 1794 in Q. L. Yeom. Cav. Worc. (1914) 5 The proposed Corps of Yeomanry Cavalry for the County of Worcester. 1798 Act 38 Geo. III c. 51 (title) An Act for authorizing the billetting such Troops of Yeomanry Cavalry as may be desirous of assembling for the Purpose of being trained together. 1825 M'Watt (title) Letters to Officers and Privates of the Berwickshire Yeomanry Cavalry. 1886 H. Graham (title) Annals of the Yeomanry Cavalry of Wiltshire, a History of the Prince of Wales' Own Royal Regiment. yeomanry corps n. Π c1800 A. Young in Autobiog. (1898) 206 The undisputed origin of all the yeomanry corps in the kingdom. yeomanry cut n. Π 1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf i, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 26 With a saddle of the yeomanry cut, and a double-bitted military bridle. yeomanry dress n. Π 1877 ‘Mrs. Forrester’ Mignon xviii How handsome he looks in his yeomanry dress. yeomanry duty n. Π 1868 Chambers's Encycl. X. 315/2 The horses employed on yeomanry duty. yeomanry family n. Π 1885 J. Gillow Literary & Biogr. Hist. Eng. Catholics II. 47 The Dennetts, a Lancashire yeomanry family. yeomanry horse n. Π 1833 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) II. 426 The landlords..have martial law in their view before they will give up the Corn Laws; they fat their yeomanry horses for that very chase. yeomanry man n. Π 1884 R. Jefferies Life of Fields 132 There are yeomanry-men still living who remember how they rode about at night after the rioters. yeomanry officer n. Π 1902 V. Jacob Sheep-stealers ix The yeomanry officer who had been present at the riot. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1386
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