| 单词 | defensible men |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdefensible men a. Of people, armies, etc.: able or ready to fight, capable of defending against attack. In later use chiefly in defensible men: men who are eligible to be conscripted into a militia, levy, or army. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > defender > [adjective] defensiblec1325 defendablec1425 defensive1632 c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 11423 Hii hulde hom þere defensables, to libbe oþer to deie. c1475 Gregory's Chron. in J. Gairdner Hist. Coll. Citizen London (1876) 195 (MED) The Duke of Yorke come to the sayde Parlymentt..and the Duke of Northefolke whythe a grete multytude of defensabylle men. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) ccix. 306 Ther were therin turkes many, hardy and defensable. c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. Cxiij/1 Wyth certayn nombre off defensible parsones. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xix. 129 Sa mony of ȝou, that ar defensabil men. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. iii. 133 We no longer are defensible . View more context for this quotation 1636 W. Prynne Remonstr. against Shipmoney 4 Great Navies of Ships and people defensible. 1727 A. Collins Eng. Baronage 336 He was..Commissioned to Array all defensible Men. 1786 F. Grose Mil. Antiq. I. 67 Under the article of summoning the defensible men of the realm, may be placed some very extraordinary writs. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth vii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 207 Every defensible man of you..keep his weapons in readiness. 1888 Monthly Chron. North-Country Lore & Legend Dec. 566/1 He could levy taxes, raise defensible troops, grant charters. 1936 R. Stewart-Brown Serjeants of Peace in Medieval Eng. & Wales i. 29 All defensible men must join them on pain of death and mutilation. 2002 A. King in C. Given-Wilson 14th-cent. Eng. II. 26 The authority to array the defensible men of the county. < as lemmas |
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