单词 | colonelling |
释义 | colonellingn. A Hudibrastic expression for: Acting or playing the colonel; in later times, sometimes taken humorously as ‘trying to raise a regiment, beating about for soldiers’. In Hudibras, probably traceable to that early stage of the Civil War when it was carried on with little general plan, and the doings of Colonel This and Colonel That (notably Colonel Cromwell) were conspicuous,—being independent manifestations of warlike energy, not parts of a strategic whole. (Edith Thompson.) ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [noun] > levying or mobilizing hosting1422 levying1496 amass1567 uptakinga1578 levya1616 array1640 colonelling1663 mobilification1794 levy in mass1807 levée en masse1813 arrayal1818 mobilization1848 call-out1882 mobilizing1901 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 2 Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a Colonelling. 1691 T. Southerne Sir Anthony Love i. i I robb'd my keeper..and under thy discretion, came a Collonelling after him here into France. a1745 J. Swift Songs & Ballads (1807) 106 No subject fit to try your wit When you went colonelling. 1836 T. P. Thompson Let. 20 Feb. in Lett. to Constituents 11 A man is not to go out ‘colonelling’..in search of remote wrongs and dubious grievances. 1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 65/1 Colonelling, beating about for soldiers. A familiar phrase. 1859 F. Mahony Rel. Father Prout 480 A truce to war! a long release From ‘colonelling!’ 1881 R. L. Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque 89. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1663 |
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