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单词 milice
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milicen.

Brit. /mᵻˈliːs/, U.S. /məˈlis/
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French milice.
Etymology: < French milice handling of arms (c1578 in Middle French; earlier as milicie military organization (1371)), the military art (Cotgrave, 1611), troop of citizens raised to reinforce the regular army (1636), the Milice of Vichy (1943) < classical Latin mīlitia militia n.In quot. 1635 at sense 1 translating Italian milizie (1634).
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.
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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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