| 单词 | in plain battle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin plain battle (also combat, joust, etc.) 3. in plain battle (also combat, joust, etc.): in open or pitched battle, in a fair or formal contest. Cf. in plain field at plain adj.2 2b. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [adverb] > in open battle in plain battle (also combat, joust, etc.)c1330 c1330 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Auch.) 920 (MED) I schel winne hire in plein bataile. c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 988 He faught and slough hym manly as a knyght In pleyn bataille. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 3731 Morpidus til him gan haste..& sleu him & al in plein batail. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 600 Of those a twelve knyghtes he slewe in playne justys four. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xiv. 87 In playne ficht thai discomfit thar Thar fais, that ay fowr for ane war. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xlii. 142 Fynde .ii. champyons..that for thy loue wyll fyght with me in playne batayle. 1568 in G. Donaldson Reg. Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1963) VI. 59 Cuming..with Archibald Erle of Ergile..and..utheris..conspiratouris in plane battell with displayit baner at the feild of Langsyid. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 4 Whom [sc. Saracens & Persians] he was not able to encounter in plaine battell. a1718 W. Penn Tracts in Wks. (1726) I. 577 In a plain Combat giving him that Foyl. < as lemmas |
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