单词 | milice |
释义 | milicen. 1. Formerly: †military service or training. Subsequently (esp. (now historical) in France): a militia or army. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military service > [noun] knightshipa1175 armsc1300 knighthoodc1384 warfarec1485 service1549 soldiership1561 soldierfare1579 military service1586 stipend1604 caska1616 milice1635 lance1641 militia1641 soldiering1643 camp1725 military1757 society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > [noun] > militia or citizen army trained band1562 militia1590 trainband1628 milice1635 array1643 people's army1856 1635 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Donzella Desterrada ii. 139 My Father not knowing how to refuse the destinated milice, bethought himselfe of sending me into Persia. 1673 W. Temple Observ. United Provinces i. 13 The Forces of these Counts were composed of..a Milice, which was call'd Les gens d'ordonnance, who served on foot, and were not unlike our Train-bands. 1673 W. Temple Observ. United Provinces vii. 227 Out of this Revenue is supplied the charge of the whole Milice. 1742 Duke of Newcastle Let. 18 Dec. in Corr. Dukes of Richmond & Newcastle (1984) 96 The French are making great Augmentations of their Troops, amounting, milice included, to 80,000 men. 1759 J. Amherst Jrnl. 30 Nov. (1931) 195 I met Lt Col de Meindre & Major La Motte of the Milice of Detroit. 1877 J. Morley Crit. Misc. 2nd Ser. (Turgot) 209 The milice supplied as bad troops as the corvée supplied bad roads. 1917 S. Leacock Frenzied Fiction iii. 55 You ask me, for instance, for a milice, or at least a gendarmerie, in the Albanian hinterland; very good, I grant it you at once. 1988 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 60 444 The nomination of Jean-Sylvain Bailly as mayor and the marquis de Lafayette as commander of the milice on July 15 [1789] was even more visibly a mass affair. 2. French History. Usually in form Milice. A force employed by the Vichy government of 1940–4 to repress internal dissent.In quot. 1945, by substitution for milicien n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > municipal or national guard National Guard1847 Garde Mobile1848 milice1945 1945 H. Nicolson Let. 11 Mar. (1967) 440 The milices had beaten him up. 1958 Listener 21 Aug. 277/2 The Cagoulards, who in the event became the Kernel of the Vichy Milice. 1968 A. Diment Bang Bang Birds vi. 98 Their disposal was left to the Gestapo and the Milice. 1974 T. Allbeury Snowball vi. 32 An officer..captured in Perpignan by the Milice in 1944 and handed over to the Gestapo. 1986 J. B. Hilton Moondrop to Murder iv. 37 Bassompierre's Milice was a Vichy police force at the service of the German army. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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