† dismarchn.

Etymology: < 16th cent. French desmarche , < desmarcher : see dismarch v.

Obsolete. rare.

A retreat.

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society > armed hostility > military operations > manoeuvre > [noun] > retreat

retreat1523

retire1548

retract1553

back-march1577

dismarch1600

dismarching1635

skedaddle1870

pullback1943

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxv. xxxiii. 574 The enemie..traced him hard at heeles in his dismarch [L. abeuntium].

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† dismarchv.

Etymology: < 16th cent. French desmarch-er ‘to step, or goe, backe..to retire..loose ground’ (Cotgrave), < des- dis- prefix 1d + marcher to march v.²

Obsolete.

intransitive. To march or fall back, to retreat; to march off, retire.

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society > armed hostility > military operations > manoeuvre > [verb (intransitive)] > retreat

withdraw1297

recoilc1330

faila1400

rere?a1400

give way1413

ruse?a1425

retreata1460

to leave place1487

wandis1487

settle1513

retire1533

retrace1539

dismarch1596

to come off1600

to fall back1602

retraicta1604

give grounda1616

recline1789

exfiltrate1980

1596 Life Scanderbeg 225 He [Scanderbeg] dismarched therefore with as great secrecy as possible.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. ii. lxiii. 86 The enemies..dismarched away [L. abeunt] as speedely as they could.

1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. 115 To dismarch from an enemy, was euer held dishonourable by a man of valour.

Derivatives

† disˈmarching n. Obsolete

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