单词 | arrear-ward |
释义 | † arrear-wardn. Obsolete. = arrière-guard n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > part of army by position > [noun] > rear back-wardc1275 rearwarda1325 reredosc1400 reward1440 back-guardc1470 rearguard1481 arrière-guard1489 retroguard1574 arrear-ward1579 forlorn hope1579 train1598 back1600 rear1604 1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin xiii. 739 From thauauntgarde he became in the areareward. 1589 True Coppie Disc. Late Voy. Spaine & Portingale (1881) 75 The Battaile and the arrierward stood in Armes al the night. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxiv. 863 The second legion which was in the arrereward. 1653 S. Clarke Life Tamerlane 3 The Prince of Thanais..led the arereward. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1579 |
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