单词 | fraternize |
释义 | fraternizev. 1. a. intransitive. To associate or sympathize with as a brother or as brothers; to form a fraternal friendship. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > fraternization > fraternize [verb (intransitive)] fraternize1611 cordialize1813 frat1957 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fraterniser, to fraternize, concurre with, be neere vnto, agree as brothers. 1807 R. Wilson Jrnl. 1 July in Life Gen. Sir R. Wilson (1862) II. viii 290 Had Alexander not fraternized with Buonaparte. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. v. 92 Too little of a democrat to fraternize with an affiliated society of the soi disant Friends of the People. 1872 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia (new ed.) viii We fraternised upon the spot. b. spec. To cultivate friendly relations with (troops of an opposing army); to practise fraternization n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > fraternization > practice fraternization [verb] fraternize1897 1897 G. B. Shaw Crude Criminol. in Doctors' Delusions (1932) 272 The whole army might..realize that they had no quarrel with the enemy and fraternize with them. 1915 Sphere 9 Jan. 31 It has puzzled our French allies..that while we are in a war to the death with the German Empire our soldiers and theirs should have been able to fraternise on Christmas Day... Soldiers of the rival armies exchanged sweets, cigars, and cigarettes, and sang carols and songs in unison. 1928 H. Williamson Pathway x. 228 The German and British staffs both issued orders, about the same time, that any man found fraternizing with the enemy, would be court-martialled. 1937 A. Koestler Spanish Test. iii. 72 Soldiers from the rebel ranks fraternising with and discussing the situation with the Government troops. 1944 New Statesman 17 June 400/1 The War Office regulation..has laid down that British soldiers must be polite to coloured [U.S.] troops, but not fraternise with them, or offer them drinks. 1946 Britannica Bk. of Year 832/2 Fraternize, to deal socially with members of an enemy nation, especially with women; and, specifically, sexually. 2. transitive. To bring into fraternal association or sympathy; to unite as brothers. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > associate with for common purpose [verb (transitive)] > bring into association allyc1325 confeder1380 sociea1387 associate1398 sociate1485 companya1500 band1530 confederate1532 aggregate1534 colleague1535 join1560 enter1563 bandy1597 league1611 colligate1613 club1656 fraternize1656 federalize1787 brigade1831 1656 T. Blount Glossographia To Fraternize, to agree as brothers; to concur with, or be neer unto; also to admit into a Fraternity, brotherhood or society. 1793 E. Burke Observ. Conduct Minority in Two Lett. Conduct Domestick Parties (1797) §7 A regular correspondence for fraternizing the two nations had also been carried on. 1796 S. T. Coleridge Relig. Musings in Poems Var. Subj. 149 To know ourselves Parts and proportions of one wond'rous whole: This fraternizes man. 1841 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 8 326 Emissaries were soon sent to the West Indies to fraternize the sable citizens of all the French islands. 1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh i. 2 It might have..reconciled and fraternised my soul With the new order. Derivatives ˈfraternized adj. ΚΠ 1817 Ann. Reg. 27 All societies..which extended themselves by fraternized branches. ˈfraternizing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > fraternization > [noun] fraternization1792 fraternizing1793 confraternization1840 society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > [noun] > action of fasteningOE confederationc1425 confedering1530 banding1593 bandying1599 coalescence1609 associating1644 concorporating1648 federation1652 confederating1687 fraternizing1793 colleaguing1817 leaguing1841 ganging1891 gang-up1936 gang-banging1966 the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > fraternization > [noun] > with opposing troops fraternizing1937 1793 Trial of Fyshe Palmer 46 Had these fraternizing principles been only heard in France, we might have cared the less. 1858 T. J. Hogg Life Shelley II. 463 The love of equality, of levelling, and fraternising. 1881 H. James Portrait of Lady I. v. 45 A gentle..old man, who combined consummate shrewdness with a sort of fraternising good-humour. 1937 A. Koestler Spanish Test. ix. 179 And then ensued a perfect orgy of fraternising and eating. 1945 in Amer. Speech (1947) 22 147/2 (heading) Fraternizing in Germany. 1957 New Yorker 26 Oct. 144/2 The fantastic amount of fraternizing with the enemy in the Korean prison camps. ˈfraternizer n. one who or that which fraternizes. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > fraternization > [noun] > one who fraternizes fraternizer1795 fratter1949 1795 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iv, in Wks. (1818) IX. 74 I join issue with the Fraternizers, and positively deny the fact. 1837 T. De Quincey in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 72 All Whigs..all, indeed, fraternisers with French republicanism. 1860 O. W. Holmes Professor at Breakfast-table ii. 40 The grand equalizer and fraternizer..is..wine. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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