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[F. milice, lit. ‘warlike discipline’ (Cotgr.), ad. L. mīlitia warfare.]
Formerly, militia; military service or training. In revived use, spec. a force employed by the occupied French state of 1940–44 to repress internal dissent. (In quot. 1945, by substitution for milicien.)
1635J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Banish'd Virg. 139 My Father not knowing how to refuse the destinated milice, bethought himselfe of sending me into Persia. 1673Sir W. Temple Observ. Netherl. i. 13 The Forces of these Counts were composed of..a Milice, which was call'd Les gens d'ordonnance, who served on foot, and were not unlike our Train-bands. Ibid. vii. 227 Out of this Revenue is supplied the charge of the whole Milice. 1945H. Nicolson Let. 11 Mar. (1967) 440 The milices had beaten him up. 1958Listener 21 Aug. 277/2 The Cagoulards, who in the event became the Kernel of the Vichy Milice. 1968A. Diment Bang Bang Birds vi. 98 Their disposal was left to the Gestapo and the Milice. 1974T. Allbeury Snowball vi. 32 An officer..captured in Perpignan by the Milice in 1944 and handed over to the Gestapo. |