单词 | land-service |
释义 | land-servicen. Service performed on land; military, as opposed to naval, service. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military service > [noun] > type or manner of service > on land land-servicea1586 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. vii. sig. S3v Seing wherein the Sea-discipline differed from Land-seruice. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. ii. 136 As I was then aduisde by my learned counsail in the lawes of this land seruice, I did not come. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden Ded. Æneis in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. f3 I Writ not always in the proper terms of Navigation, Land-Service, or in the Cant of any Profession. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 62 A good Army for Land Service. 1801 T. S. Surr Splendid Misery II. 194 Salano, a Neapolitan pirate originally..took to the land service afterwards, and committed murders out of number. 1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I iv. 5 The Prince is all for the land-service, Forgetting Duncan, Nelson, Howe, and Jervis. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1586 |
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