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单词 demi-lance
释义

demi-lancen.

/ˈdɛmɪlɑːns//ˈdɛmɪlans/
Forms: Middle English demye launce, 1500s demylaunce, demelaunce, demilaunce, dimilaunce, dimilance, 1500s–1600s demylance, 1500s–1700s demilance, 1500s–1600s demilaunce, 1500s–1800s demi-lance.
Etymology: < French demie lance (15th cent. in Littré): compare demi- prefix 3.
1. A lance with short shaft, used in the 15th and 16th centuries.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > spear or lance > [noun] > small spear or lance
lancetc1420
demi-lance1490
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxii. 487 Charlemagn..helde a demye launce in hys hande.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 420/2 Who in the way strooke, the Lord Gilbert Humsard such a blow with his demilaunce, that he feld both him and his horse to the ground.
a1600 T. Deloney Pleasant Hist. Iohn Winchcomb (1619) ii. sig. Div Fiftie tall men..Demilances in their hands.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 430 Light demi-Launces from afar they throw, Fasten'd with Leathern Thongs to gaul the Foe.
1873 C. M. Yonge Cameos cxv, in Monthly Packet May 454 He..struck him such a blow with his demi-lance as to unhorse him.
attributive.1658 J. Burbury tr. G. Gualdo Priorato Hist. Christina Queen of Swedland 358 His Holinesse likewise ordered that five of his demy-lance men should every day wait by turns on her Majesty.
2. A light horseman armed with a demilance. In the literal sense, obsolete by 1600, except as historical; in 17th cent. often used humorously like ‘cavalier’.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > spear or lance
spearc1275
spearman1297
lance-knight1530
demi-lancer1552
demi-lancea1556
spearer1574
lance-man1589
lancer1590
javelineer1600
javelotier1600
lance1602
spearsman1836
javelin-man1846
society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > mounted soldier > light-armed
hobblerc1308
prickera1350
genetorc1440
stradiotc1515
light horse1524
hussar1532
light horseman1544
demi-lancer1552
demi-lancea1556
estradiot1577
argoletier1579
argoletc1580
Cossack1587
jennet1676
hobbler-archer1786
a1556 T. Cranmer Let. 22 Apr. in M. Burrows Worthies All Souls (1874) v. 65 To send up one demy-launce well furnished.
c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 56 Vm fute men and xviijc lycht horsemen and dimilances.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xxi. 760/2 Nineteen Knights, six hundred demi-Lances.
1631 J. Shirley Loves Crueltie iii. ii Be not angry, demi-lance.
a1754 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. (1755) IV. 55 The forces under his command consisting of 600 demilances, 200 archers on horsebacke, 3000 on foot.
1849 J. Grant Mem. Kirkaldy ix. 82 Kirkaldy with his troop of demi-lances accompanied this column of the army.

Derivatives

demi-ˈlancer n. = 2.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > spear or lance
spearc1275
spearman1297
lance-knight1530
demi-lancer1552
demi-lancea1556
spearer1574
lance-man1589
lancer1590
javelineer1600
javelotier1600
lance1602
spearsman1836
javelin-man1846
society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > mounted soldier > light-armed
hobblerc1308
prickera1350
genetorc1440
stradiotc1515
light horse1524
hussar1532
light horseman1544
demi-lancer1552
demi-lancea1556
estradiot1577
argoletier1579
argoletc1580
Cossack1587
jennet1676
hobbler-archer1786
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Dimilauncer or bearer of a dimilaunce, lancearius.
1625 G. Markham Souldiers Accidence 40 The second Troope of Horse were called Launciers or Demi~launciers.
1767 J. Entick Hist. London I. 452 A large body of demi-lancers in bright armour.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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