militaryadj.n.
/ˈmɪlᵻt(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈmɪləˌtɛri/ A. adj.
1. Of or relating to warfare or defence; adapted to or connected with a state of war; designed for military use. Of, relating, or belonging to armed forces or an army (now frequently opposed to civil or civilian).
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society > armed hostility > military service > [adjective]
militarya1460
militar1533
martial1537
uncivil1590
castrensic1840
a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) 719 (MED) The legioun stont in cohortys x..The dignite and number of the men Hath in the firste cohors an excellence Of noble blood..The military cohors..Thus named it the wise.
a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) 909 (MED) The legioun is seide haue choorsis x. The military first, or miliary. The best..men..therto be necessary.
1582 G. Whetstone Heptameron Ciuill Disc. sig. Si In Militarie Knowledge, he was experienced, as wel, by seruice in the Field, as in readyng Vegetius and other Aucthors in his Studie.
1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons Ded. 1 b Our auncient proceedings in matters Militarie.
1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. App. 373 His fourth militarie forces, are the Arabians.
1602 W. Warner Epitome Hist. Eng. in Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) 357 Aetius..caused this marueilous and millitarie Wall then to be builded.
1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion xv. Illustr. 244 Excepting those [orders] of Templars..and such like other, which were more Religious then Military.
1727 J. Arbuthnot Tables Anc. Coins 224 The Expedition of the Argonauts..was partly mercantile, partly military.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 115 The public ecclesiastical, military, and maritime jurisdictions.
1804 Duke of Grafton Autobiogr. (1898) 3 A parent, who, had he lived, would probably have been as distinguished a character in the civil, as he had shown that he was in the military [i.e. naval] line.
1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan III. 115 Washington would have lost a part, or the whole of..his military stores.
1850 W. D. Cooper Hist. Winchelsea 37 The Strand Gate..leading by the new Military road to Rye.
1861 H. L. Scott Mil. Dict. 135 If the camp is to present the same front as the troops in order of battle, 400 military paces will be necessary per regiment of 500 files front.
1902 J. Conrad Heart of Darkness in Youth 56 Here and there a military camp lost in a wilderness.
1935 Economist 10 Aug. 270/1 Apart from British military aircraft, the openings are for commercial aviation, private flying and export.
1968 A. Storr Human Aggression iii. 27 Even democracies support armies; and military organization is based upon a strict rank order and absolute obedience.
1986 I. L. Lebow in T. C. Bartee Digital Communications ii. 84 Some of this technology is being developed for military satellites.
2.
a. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a soldier or soldiers; used, performed, or brought about by soldiers; befitting a soldier.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > [adjective] > befitting soldier
soldierlike1553
soldierly1577
military1585
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. iii. 74 The Pretorian legions..began to become rulers over their maisters, vnder pretext of such a Militarie gift.
1591 W. Garrard & R. Hitchcock Arte of Warre 17 Which he must weare to honour the Militarie profession.
1611 T. Heywood Golden Age ii. sig. D Train'd my youth, In feats of Armes, and military prowesse.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 (1623) ii. iii. 30 So that in Speech, in Gate,..In Militarie Rules,..He was the Marke, and Glasse..That fashion'd others.
1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 119 They esteem luxury, and all other licentiousness, as Military Gallantry.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 955 Was this..Your military obedience..? View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 241 Over his lucid Armes A militarie Vest of purple flowd. View more context for this quotation
a1718 W. Penn Tracts in Wks. (1726) I. 575 Maugre all the Military Opposition of the Jews.
1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 340 With respect to Military Music, the trumpet is mentioned by Homer in a simile.
1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain III. vii. 133 The late military revolution.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 142 Tyrconnel..knew nothing of military duty.
1904 J. Conrad Nostromo ii. iv. 136 And when he rode slowly through the streets during some military display, the contemptuous good humour of his solitary eye roaming over the crowds extorted the acclamations of the populace.
1950 M. Marples University Slang 56 In military slang more recently a private tutor's pupils were known as crammer's pups (1923–), by a pleasing combination of abbreviation and pun.
1970 Cape Times 28 Oct. 22/4 (advt.) A vacancy..for a young matriculant male who has completed his military training.
1995 Legion Apr. 59/3 A military parade became an annual event with the start of the Candian National Exhibition in 1879.
b. Of fashion, colours, etc.: resembling the clothes worn by soldiers. Occurring earliest in military heel n. at Compounds 2.
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1817 T. H. Bayly Rough Sketches Bath & Other Poems i. 54 With boots and military heels, Some love to guide their tandem wheels, And dash along the Crescent.
1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxxvii. 370 Withers, no longer the wan, stood upright in a pigeon-breasted jacket and military trowsers.
1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 188/2 Ladies' Single Military Cape Mackintosh. Made from extra fine all wool.
1971 Melody Maker 13 Nov. 50 (advt.) New cotton drill loons and military trousers.
1982 R. Ingalls Mrs Caliban 14 A species of military hat composed of metallic-painted cardboard, red glitterdust, and side rosettes.
1985 D. Johnson Fiskadoro i. 5 Mr. Cheung knew by the faded military olive of this little boy's shorts that he'd come from the village.
3.
a. Of an individual: having the characteristics of a soldier; soldierly. Of a person's attitude, bearing, or conduct: characteristic of a soldier.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > [adjective] > having qualities of soldier
soldierlike1542
military1598
soldierly1610
soldatesque1840
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. i. 35 Most millitarie sir salutation. View more context for this quotation
1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 235 Walled Towns,..Ordinance, and Artillerie, they are all but a Sheep in a Lions skin, except the breed and disposition of the people be militarie.
1734 Pennsylvania Gaz. 13 Mar. 2/1 The Military Spirit seeming to revive among us, I would recommend to you, [etc.].
1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 139 Man is a military animal, Glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea I. 64 He was a man too military to be warlike.
1901 S. Dark Stage Silhouettes 87 Archer..is a tallish man, with a military walk and bearing, and a strong, characterful face.
1932 R. Kipling Limits & Renewals 80 I was monolithically military.
1952 J. Steinbeck East of Eden iii. 18 Cyrus developed an excellent military mind.
1981 B. Ashley Dodgem iv. 80 Adult hands, stronger than Simon had ever realised, held him in a tight, military grip.
b. Of a person, class of people, etc.: engaged in the life of a soldier; belonging to the army. Also in extended use.
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society > armed hostility > military service > [adjective] > serving as soldier
serving1569
in service1591
militarya1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. i. 62 The Throngs of Militarie men.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 45 That dependancy which all military men already had on him.
1682 J. Dryden Medall 11 Thy military Chiefs are brave and true.
1756 G. Washington Let. 23 Sept. in Writings (1931) I. 467 And my surprise is yet increased, when I consider how cautiously worded the act of Parliament is, to preserve the rights and liberties of the people against this arbitary proceedings of the military officers.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xvii. 43 Under their orders thirty-five military commanders were stationed in the provinces.
1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) II. xvii. 65 When the military ants before alluded to go upon their expeditions.
1867 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood I. ix. 227 He had the carriage of a military man.
1910 W. James Mem. & Stud. (1911) xi. 275 The militarily patriotic and romantic-minded everywhere, and especially the professional military class, refuse to admit for a moment that war may be a transitory phenomenon in social evolution.
1958 M. Pugh Wilderness of Monkeys 37 ‘Not much crumpet here, tonight,’ Maguire said, smiling lecherously at the military man's companion.
1991 M. E. Wertsch Military Brats x. 344 Even where a military parent is blatantly and unselfconsciously racist, the children are likely to grow up much more open-minded.
B. n.
1. A member of the military, esp. an officer in the army. rare.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > military man > [noun]
martialist1576
cavalier1589
martial?1611
militarista1616
swordmana1616
camper1631
swordsman1701
military1709
serviceman1832
militant1842
society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer or soldier of rank > [noun]
officera1450
lancepesade1579
military1709
tax-eater1818
two-striper1917
chiefy1942
pongo1943
scrambled egg(s)1943
Percy1961
1709 D. Manley Secret Mem. 176 A certain Military's Wife has had more Darts for him than is necessary.
1804 A. Seward Mem. Dr. Darwin 149 Fox-hunting esquires, dashing militaries, and pedantic gownsmen.
1837 Lett. from Madras (1843) 94 The civilians all expect to come to us..; and the militaries go to Captain Price.
1962 Listener 1 Nov. 723/3 A few splendid portraits of the Austrian court nobility and of the high militaries.
1993 Jrnl. Milit. Hist. 57 568 He suggests that the regular militaries did not understand the role that could be played by the guerrillas.
2. With plural or singular agreement. Usually with the. The armed forces (of a country); soldiers or military personnel, esp. regarded as a class.
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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 > [noun]
mainOE
strength?a1160
armaturea1450
force1487
ranka1533
armed forces1572
troops1598
military1757
fyrd1832
the services1850
society > armed hostility > warrior > military man > [noun] > collectively
soldiery1570
soldatesquea1648
military1757
1757 J. H. Grose Voy. E.-Indies x. 202 None..of the Parsees, either meddle at all with the government, or with the military.
1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 93/1 The military marched down to the ship.
1775 Tender Father I. 189 Even to the gentlemen in the military,..Mr. N—— would not allow of any material excuses.
1804 Sydney Gaz. 20 May 4/1 The experiment of Vaccination upon several of the Children of the Military.
1813 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 76 The whole escorted by 400 military.
1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 16 Their procession was interrupted by the military.
1904 W. T. Mills Struggle for Existence ix. 114 The military had..ceased to be in any way a source of income to the state.
1965 Malcolm X Autobiogr. (1968) ix. 226 Sophia's husband had gotten out of the military, and he was some sort of salesman.
1972 F. Fitzgerald Fire in Lake xii. 346 The U.S. military was at the same time bombing, defoliating, and moving villages.
1990 Independent 31 Oct. 11 (heading) The military ponders a worst-case scenario.
Compounds
C1. With other adjectives in sense ‘military and —’.
military-political adj.
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1810 (title) The Irishmen; a military-political novel. By a native officer.
1988 R. Allison Soviet Union & Strategy of Non-alignment (BNC) 189 Brezhnev stressed the Soviet opposition to ‘the division of the world into military-political blocs opposed to each other’.
military-scientific adj.
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1953 Ann. Math. Statistics 24 696 In order to obtain without great delay the solution of the various military-scientific problems arising from a war, it is necessary to train personnel in advance and to build a reservoir of new scientific results and new methods.
1995 Jrnl. Mil. Hist. 59 351 The purists or the seekers of absolute truth..can now turn to the five-volume Boevoi sostav Sovetskoi armii emanating from the Military–Scientific Directorate.
military-technological adj.
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1941 Jrnl. Politics 3 449 These various examples may serve to ilustrate the extreme difficulty of forcing language to keep pace with military-technological and political developments.
1962 Times 26 Feb. (Canada Suppl.) p. ii/2 The ‘military-technological complex’ eating into American business and politics alike.
1992 Polit. Sci. Q. 107 221 The apparent military–technological inferiority of Soviet equipped Iraqi fighting power.
C2. † military feud n. [ < A. + feud n.2] Obsolete a feudal estate held on certain conditions of armed service to be rendered to the feudal superior.† military mast n. Obsolete a mast carried by a warship ready for combat. † military yard n. Obsolete a place set apart for the training of soldiers.
military academy n. a place of military instruction, esp. an institution for training army cadets (cf. academy n. 4b).
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society > armed hostility > drill or training > [noun] > place for training > college for officers
military academy1756
military college1801
staff college1868
war college1894
1756 S. Bever Cadet 111 The Military Academy at Neustadt is on..a flourishing Footing.
1776 Jrnls. Continental Congr. 1774–89 (Libr. of Congr.) (1906) VI. 860 Resolved, That the Board of War be directed to prepare a plan for establishing a..Military Academy.
1823–4 Miss Hart Lett. Bahama Islands (1827) xv. 145 He..had placed his only child..at a military academy in Paris.
1994 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 26 May 19/3 The terror is so great that the bookish (or as his father might put it, ‘queerish’) Mario agrees to enroll in a military academy merely to escape home.
military age n. the age at which a person becomes eligible for military service; the age range within which a person is eligible for military service.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [noun] > specific age
yearOE
scorea1400
seventeena1568
threescorea1616
jubileea1640
military age1656
legal age1658
tecnogoniaa1676
sixty1717
forty1732
fifty1738
seven-year-old1762
teen1789
septuagenarianism1824
sexagenarianism1824
day-old1831
seventeen-year-old1858
centenarianism1863
roaring forties1867
twenties1874
leaving age1875
school-leaving age1881
octogenarianism1883
reading age1906
three1909
teenage1912
eleven-plus1937
society > armed hostility > military service > [noun] > liability for service > military age
military age1656
1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana 210 When they came to be of military age, they were listed of the Mora, and so continued in readinesse for publique Service under the Discipline of the Polemarches.
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. v. i. 300 It [sc. the state] may..oblige either all the citizens of the military age, or a certain number of them, to join in some measure the trade of a soldier to whatever other trade or profession they may happen to carry on... Its military force is [then] said to consist in a militia. View more context for this quotation
1848 Southern Q. Rev. 14 396 The proportion of persons in France of the military age, to the whole number, is as 5626 to 10,000 of the population.
1940 Amer. Pigeon Jrnl. Dec. 420/1 We have hundreds of young men of military age who have had the advantage of the experience and training of the pigeoneers of 1917–1918.
1991 B. Turner And Policeman Smiled (BNC) 204 In 1940, any refugee of military age was less likely to be called up than to be sent down, to an internment camp.
military architecture n. (a) the science of fortification; (b) military buildings or constructions.Antoine Deville's Les Fortifications was first published in 1629 (see quot. 1645).
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > [noun] > construction of defensive works > science of
fortification1642
military architecture1645
military engineering1801
1645 D. Papillon Pract. Abstr. Fortification & Assailing 106 Now to decide this point I leave it to the judicious Reader, yet I will inform him that..De Ville, [margin See his Military Architecture.] Petro Sardy, and the greater part of the Italian and French Commanders, side in their judgement, with the first opinion here related.
1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy II. iii. 21 Mons. Blondel, with almost as many more books of military architecture, as Don Quixote was found to have of chivalry, when the curate and barber invaded his library.
1805 T. M. Harris Jrnl. Tour 166 It is true such fortifications were not comparable to those of the Europeans, because neither was their military architecture perfected, nor had they occasion to cover themselves from artillery, of which they had no experience or conception.
1987 Sunday Express Mag. 2 Aug. (Suppl.) 6/1 The exterior is styled after Norman military architecture—a mass of great walls and crenellated towers built on a fanciful scale.
military art n. (also military arts, †art military) the art of warfare; combat perceived in terms of technique or craft; also figurative.
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society > armed hostility > war > war as profession or skill > [noun]
wara1375
chivalrya1387
chiefalrie1548
soldiery1579
profession1581
military art1590
militia1590
warcrafta1661
1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons Ded. 1 And speciallie in the Arte Militarie.
1654 R. Aylett Brides Ornaments in Divine & Moral Speculations iv. 238 I of this Military Art do know No Tutor like to holy supplication.
1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour v. ii. 53 That you are over-reach'd too, ha, ha, ha, only a little Art-military, used.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. xii. 191 Their Prudence..would amply supply all Defects in the Military Art.
1872 W. Bagehot Physics & Politics (1876) ii. 44 The progress of the military art is the most conspicuous, I was about to say the most showy, fact in human history.
1991 J. Wormald Mary Queen of Scots 92 The king took part in a joust, that ‘peaceful’ demonstration of the military arts which was in fact potentially lethal.
military attaché n. a military officer serving with an embassy; (also) one attached as an observer to a foreign army.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer according to function > [noun] > military attaché
military attaché1832
1832 Albion & Star 20 Nov. Colonel Cradock has been annexed as military attaché to the British mission, and accompanies the French army, to observe its proceedings.
1857 Foreign Office List X. 18 Military Attaché to the Embassy, Lt. Col. E. L. Claremont, C.B.
1877 H. Ponsonby Let. 18 Nov. in A. Ponsonby Henry Ponsonby (1942) 167 We have dozens of Military Attachés with the Armies in the field.
1987 E. Leonard Bandits iv. 49 He was military attaché at the Nicaraguan embassy.
military attachéship n. the office or rank of military attaché.
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1862 Few Words on Mil. Attachés 4 The question of military attachéships reduces itself to one of efficiency and economy.
1871 Daily News 24 July 5/6 We do not presume to ask: who were the officers who declined the military attachéship at St. Petersburg.
1904 F. Whishaw Countess Ida i. 10 Whether I shall ever visit St. Petersburg again I cannot say. I doubt it, though I should like to come; but unless they give me the military attachéship, I don't quite see what is to bring me.
1948 Caribbean Oct. 61/2 Active service in the first World War in France, and the Middle East Military attaché-ship in Persia.
military band n. [ < A. + band n.3 (compare sense 4a s.v.)] a band of musicians attached to a military unit, esp. a marching band comprising brass, woodwind, and percussion players.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > band > type of
waits1298
consort1587
wait player1610
wind music1650
the fiddles1676
military band1775
German band1819
street band1826
brass band1834
promenade band1836
horn-band1849
pipe band1867
wind-band1876
Hungarian band1882
jazz band1916
jazz orchestra1916
big band1919
road band1922
Schrammel quartet1924
showband1926
spasm band1926
dance-band1927
marching band1930
name band1932
ork1933
silver band1933
sweet band1935
Schrammel orchestra1938
pop band1942
jug band1946
steel band1949
rehearsal band1957
skiffle band1957
ghost band1962
support band1969
support group1969
scratch band1982
1775 Westm. Mag. May 231/1 Three military bands, composed of fifes, drums, cymbals, etc.
1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey ii. xiv. 191 There were three tables, each stretching down the Hall; the Dais was occupied by a military band.
1994 Canad. Def. Q. Mar. 43/3 The programme includes..a veterans and vehicle parade, a vintage aircraft flypast, drill team demonstrations, military band concerts, [etc.].
military barracks n. a set of buildings used as a residence for soldiers.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > quartering > [noun] > quarters > barracks
barrack1697
army barracks1778
military barracks1848
cuartel1852
1848 Maitland (New S. Wales) Mercury 16 Aug. 2/6 [They] have been located in the old Military Barracks.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 47/2 On an eminence east of Castle Street are the military barracks.
1991 D. Mortman Wild Rose ii. viii. 145 They had been shipped to camp Kilmer..and quartered in spartan military barracks.
military board n. a board specially appointed to deal with the affairs of the army.
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1788 Calcutta Chron. 10 Jan. The military board having attentively examined the accounts and vouchers, conceive, that the tariff shall be signed by the commanding officer.
1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 245 Even the frowsy military board—composed of several very old and feeble Company's officers of the last century—was frightened into something like activity.
1904 J. Conrad Nostromo iii. iv. 314 When making his extorted confessions to the Military Board, Dr Monygham was not seeking to avoid death.
1999 Moment (Electronic ed.) Feb. 38 The Military Board of the Supreme Court of the USSR has decided: To void the sentence of the Military Board..of April 26, 1938.
military braid n. a broad braid such as is worn on soldiers' uniforms.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > insignia > [noun] > braid
aiguillette1792
aglet1816
military braid1851
passing braid1882
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 562/2 Silk, worsted, and cotton braids for figuring... Silk military braids and frogs.
1966 Olney Amsden & Sons Ltd. Price List 39 Rayon Military Braid in fashion shades 66/6 gross yards.
1991 Time (Internat. ed.) 13 May 13 The former general..is working to put a human face on top of the military braid.
military brat n. North American colloquial a child with a parent, or parents, in the armed forces; esp. one who exhibits behavioural problems associated with the unsettled and itinerant nature of military life.
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1981 N.Y. Times 11 Oct. vii. 36/3 Arias's style reflects his cosmopolitan background—his travels with his family as a military brat, his education in urban schools and at Berkeley [etc.].
1991 M. E. Wertsch Military Brats x. 321 But both overachievement and underachievement by military brats can be read as efforts by outsiders to reach out for recognition.
2000 Ottawa Sun (Electronic ed.) 3 Aug. 16 It's been several decades since they last saw their friends. This won't affect spirits, they say, because no one knows how to party like military brats.
military brush n. = military hairbrush n.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > implements used in styling the hair > [noun] > brush
brush1377
hairbrush1599
toilet brush1833
military hairbrush1894
military brush1921
1921 E. Ferber Girls vi. 102 Two silver-backed military brushes on the dull mahogany chest of drawers—‘chiffo-robe’, Celia would tell you.
1977 H. O'Hagan School-marm Tree xvi. 223 Beside the bottle was a canvas shaving kit..just to its right was a pigskin case..which held places for two military brushes, a comb and a toothbrush holder.
military chest n. an army's treasury; the funds for a military campaign.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > [noun] > War Office > department, board, etc.
ordnance1485
military chest1745
War Cabinet1916
W.O.S.B.1945
War Ag1949
1745 B. Ward Let. 27 Sept. in J. Stevenson Two Cent. Life in Down (1920) xi. 330 The small remainder of our Army fled to Berwick 54 Officers prisoners, 150 Carts of Baggage,—Cannon 2 Mortars & the military Chest of £2000.
1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea III. xi. 66 The military chest..fell also into the hands of the Abdollees.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 63 The Universities were preparing to coin their plate for the purpose of supplying the military chest of his enemies.
1869 J. E. T. Rogers in A. Smith Inq. Wealth Nations (new ed.) I. Pref. 40 The military chests of Napoleon were supplied by..British bullion dealers.
1979 Mil. Affairs 43 64 Funds for the secret police and the makeshift mounted police were provided from the military chest.
military college n. [compare college n. 4e] = military academy n.
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society > armed hostility > drill or training > [noun] > place for training > college for officers
military academy1756
military college1801
staff college1868
war college1894
1801 (title) Observations on the establishment of a Royal Military College for the instruction of the Officers of the British Army as proposed by the Secretary at War.
1837 W. Dyott Diary 17 Jan. (1907) II. 246 Young Palmer, a candidate for the army at the Military College at Sandhurst.
1992 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 6 Aug. 1/1 We also offer a guide to hot careers, an inspection of military colleges and an essay on teaching from one of the best.
Military Cross n. (in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries) a military decoration awarded for distinguished active service on land, instituted in 1915, originally only for officers (abbreviated M.C.).
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society > armed hostility > military organization > insignia > [noun] > decorations or orders
Order of St Michael1530
Legion of Honour1802
clasp1813
Iron Cross1813
medal1813
star1844
Victoria Cross1856
V.C.1859
Medal of Honour1861
bar1864
yellow jacket1864
V.D.1901
Croix de Guerre1915
Military Cross1915
C.G.M.1916
Military Medal1916
pip1917
M.M.1918
purple heart1918
Maconochie Cross1919
Maconochie Medal1919
wound-stripe1919
T.D.1924
rooty gong1925
Silver Star1932
Ritterkreuz1940
Africa Star1943
ruptured duck1945
Spam medal1945
screaming eagle1946
1915 London Gaz. 1 Jan. 7/1 Royal Warrant instituting a new decoration ‘The Military Cross’.
1917 W. Owen Let. 9 Apr. (1967) 451 I think Capt. Green..will get a Military Cross, which he has long deserved—for 2½ years active service.
1995 Independent 9 May 8/7 The Military Cross which used to be reserved for officers is awarded to Corporal Andrew Rainey.
military discharge n. [originally after post-classical Latin missio militaris (see quot. 1683)] release or dismissal from military service; an instance of this; (also) a document or certificate confirming this.
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1683 tr. H. de Valois in tr. Eusebius et al. Hist. Church vi. v. 517/1 (margin) The Militia amongst the Romans..was a kind of temporary servitude... The Missio Militaris, or Military discharge [L. missio militaris], does plainly answer the Manumision, or making free of Servants.
1800 J. Neild Acct. Persons Confined for Debt 18 Being a soldier when taken to prison, his son enlisted, on condition of his father's military discharge.
1885 G. Drage tr. Criminal Code of German Empire xxix. 298 Any one who..falsely prepares or forges passes, military discharges.., or other such papers of legitimation.., shall be punished by arrest or a fine up to 150 shillings.
1901 Times 19 Jan. 7/1 The prisoner also had in his possession a gun licence.., his military discharge, and a pawnbroker's contract note.
1979 ABA Jrnl. Feb. 284/1 (heading) Should there be punitive military discharges?
2013 Guardian (Nexis) 15 June (Review section) 6 His persecution by fellow soldiers drove him into a psychiatric ward, and necessitated his military discharge.
military discipline n. the obedience to and exercise of all military orders and regulations.
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society > authority > subjection > obedience > [noun] > discipline or orderly conduct > resulting from training
disciplinec1350
military discipline1625
1579 T. Digges in L. Digges & T. Digges Stratioticos Pref. to Rdr. sig. a. Having partlie by experience my selfe seene, what extreame disorders growe, and dishonors are receyued for wante of Militare Discipline.]
1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis iv. iv. 251 For military Discipline cannot be obserued within a Towne, nor Nouices taught and trayned in that time of peace; and the old Souldiers themselues will lye in the Townes, surfetting with idlenesse and slouth.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xvii. 44 The memory of Constantine has been deservedly censured for another innovation which corrupted military discipline.
1846 Southern Q. Rev. Apr. 453 Surely the supremacy of military discipline was never more complete, the subordination to martial authority never more perfect.
1990 A. Beevor Inside Brit. Army viii. 92 In the case of a divorce, commanding officers have to provide a certificate guaranteeing that this has not undermined ‘good order or military discipline’.
military drum n. a side or snare drum.
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1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music at Side-drum The common military Drum.
1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities ii. xvi. 123 Darkness closed around, and then came the ringing of church bells and the distant beating of the military drums of the Royal Guard, as the women sat knitting, knitting.
1999 Musik June 144/2 A weird balance of Detroit off-kilter synths, jacking Chicago drums, a sparky bassline like Green Velvet on acid, some military drums and great sound effects.
military engineering n. = military architecture n. (a).
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > [noun] > construction of defensive works > science of
fortification1642
military architecture1645
military engineering1801
1801 W. Dupré Lexicographia-neologica Gallica 96 These schools are nine in number:..3o military engineering.
1872 Nature 11 Apr. 465/1 It is to the School of Military Engineering that the young lieutenants of Engineers are sent.
1990 A. Beevor Inside Brit. Army xxiii. 283 Traditional military engineering tasks, such as ‘survey’, road-building, bridging, demolition and trench-digging.., have been vastly extended.
military execution n. [compare execution n. 9] a punishment carried out by the military, spec. (now historical) the ravaging by military forces of a country or province which has failed to pay a tax or other tribute levied upon it.
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1689 London Gaz. No. 2423/3 To put the Dutchies..under Military Execution, in case they do not pay, etc.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. (at cited word) Military Execution, is delivering a Country up to be ravaged and destroyed by the Soldiers, when it refuses to pay Contribution, &c.
1827 T. B. Macaulay Machiavelli in Ess. (1854) 39/2 Whether decimation be a convenient mode of military execution.
1897 Overland Monthly Mar. 304/1 Nelson's division of three brigades, aggregating about twelve thousand effective troops, were ordered out to witness, for the first time in their lives, a military execution.
1989 Jrnl. Mil. Hist. 53 443 Alotta..gives a soldier-by-soldier summary of each military execution on the Northern side.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > a legal holding > [noun] > a feudal holding or fief > held by military service
ward-land1502
timar1601
military feud1730
1730 M. Wright Introd. Law Tenures (new ed.) 32 Military Feuds in most Countries began to descend to the eldest Son only.
military fever n. now rare typhus fever.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > typhus or typhoid
putrid fever1597
pestilential fever1617
tabardillo1624
synochus1625
Hungaric fever1661
typhus1664
military fever1736
jail distemper1745
hospital fever1750
jail-fever1754
ship-fever1758
typhus fever1780
typhoid fever1789
gastric fever1802
dothinenteritis1826
enteric fever1833
typhoid1837
pythogenic fever1858
thanatotyphus1860
typh fever1861
enteric1872
famine-fever1876
Red River fever1878
laryngo-typhus1888
laryngo-typhoid1896
typh fever1900
paratyphoid1904
1736 Boston Weekly News-let. 19 Feb. 2/1 Queries for Information, concerning the Angina Ulcusculosas frequently attended with an eruptive military fever, Epidemical in New-England, Anno 1735,6.
1790 Pennsylvania Packet & Daily Advertiser 26 July 3/3 An effectual cure for inflammatory fevers,..slow fevers, commonly called nervous fevers, military fevers, and even in hectic fevers.
1888 P. H. Pye-Smith Fagge's Princ. & Pract. Med. (ed. 2) I. 131 Morbus Castrensis or military fever.
1951 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 38 25 The name applied to this disorder—gaol fever, camp fever, hospital fever, ship fever, military fever—indicate that it flourished wherever human beings were forced into close contact.
military hairbrush n. a hairbrush without a handle (suitable for short or cropped hair).
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > implements used in styling the hair > [noun] > brush
brush1377
hairbrush1599
toilet brush1833
military hairbrush1894
military brush1921
1894 Country Gentlemen's Catal. 148 Two Ivory Military Hair Brushes, in Solid Leather Case, 57/-.
1972 J. Porter Meddler & her Murder i. 7 A couple of quick passes with her silver-backed military hair brushes.
military heel n. now rare a medium-to-low straight-sided heel on a woman's shoe or boot (less high than the similar Cuban heel).
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1817Military heel [see sense A. 2b].
1857 Punch 9 May 184/1 The boots with ‘military heels’ now commonly worn by ladies.
1942 National Geographic Mag. June 723/2 The big public rooms have ping-pong tables and movie projectors, and military heels click along halls without deep carpets now.
military honours n. [compare honour n. 5] ceremonies performed by troops as a mark of respect at the burial of a member of the armed forces, the royal family, and (occasionally) high-ranking civilian officials, etc.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > [noun] > manifestation of respect > military honours
honours of war1706
military honours1720
1720 A. Pope tr. Eustathius in A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad VI. xxiii. Observ. 1772 Tis not to be suppos'd that this was a general Custom used at all Funerals; but Patroclus being a Warrior he is buried like a Soldier, with military Honours.
1778 Crit. Rev. Sept. 189 An account of military honours paid to crowned heads and to other persons.
1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 136/1 Military Honours, are salutations to crowned heads and officers of rank, by dropping colours and standards, officers saluting, bands playing, artillery discharging salvoes, &c.
1901 Daily Chron. 4 June The allied troops rendered military honours to the departing commander-in-chief.
1991 Independent 5 Jan. 25/1 The handful of us present at this bizarre junction between two worlds will never forget it. They laid Philby to rest with full military honours.
military hospital n. a hospital for the treatment of military personnel, esp. in the field.
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the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > military or field hospital
field station1610
field hospital1690
military hospital1747
general hospital1775
ambulance1800
station hospital1827
base hospital1864
clearing-hospital1914
clearing-station1915
MASH1950
1747 J. Theobald (title) Medulla Medicinae Universae; or a new compendious Dispensary. Compiled for the use of the Military Hospital abroad.
1859 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing iii. 23 The ordinary run of military hospitals.
1992 New Republic 30 Nov. 43/3 He'll sign executive orders allowing fetal tissue research, lifting the ban on the French abortion pill, permitting abortions at military hospitals, and lifting the so-called gag rule at federally funded family planning clinics.
military hotel n. Indian English colloquial (in southern India) a restaurant serving meals that are not vegetarian.
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1979 P. Nihalani et al. Indian & Brit. Eng. 122 There are several military hotels in the district, so don't worry about your meals.
1990 V. S. Naipaul India: Million Mutinies (1991) iv. 254 The ‘military hotel’ still existed when I first travelled in the South.
military-industrial adj. originally U.S. of or relating to a nation's armed forces and to its industries (esp. those producing military equipment).
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society > occupation and work > industry > [adjective] > types of industry generally
heavy1888
light industrial1919
sheltered1924
military-industrial1925
Tayacian1934
footloose1939
linked1942
low technology1956
high technology1964
smokestack1976
old economy1990
1925 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 12 29 A combined military-industrial community, with gentlemen as commanders in war and overseers in agriculture, was pictured, which vividly recalls the early ‘plantation’ type of settlement.
1969 D. H. Jacobs (title) A scientist and his experiences with corruption and treason in the U.S. military-industrial establishment.
1998 New Scientist 3 Jan. 40/3 Large labour unions [are] moving away from the shop floor to the more rarefied (and often co-opted) bargaining tables of the military-industrial management.
military-industrial complex n. originally and chiefly U.S. (a) an aggregation of military and industrial installations located in a particular area; (b) spec. a nation's armed forces and industries as a whole, regarded as a powerful vested interest and a strong influence on government.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > [noun] > buildings > large complex of
military-industrial complex1931
megastructure1965
1931 Internat. Affairs 10 442 It would require retirement to the stronghold of a military industrial complex capable of supplying an army of millions with..munitions of war.
1953 Mil. Affairs 17 74/1 Shreveport was the heart of a military-industrial complex that extended west to Marshall, Texas, and northwest to Jefferson, Texas.
1961 D. Eisenhower in N.Y. Times 18 Jan. 22/4 In the councils of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
1989 P. Kelly in J. Plant Healing Wounds Foreword p. ix There are still plenty of patriarchal technocrats out there—in the military-industrial complex, within the ridiculous secret services, and within the bureaucracies like the Pentagon.
military law n. the body of ordinance and rules governing an army, navy, or air force; (also) an ordinance or rule forming part of this.
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society > law > branch of the law > [noun] > other branches or departments of law
military law1678
family law1728
administrative law1827
labour law1842
1579 L. Digges & T. Digges Stratioticos iii. xii. 122 Forasmuch as to this Officer chiefly the execution of Militaire Lawes appertayneth, I will briefly here adioyne such Offences, as by law or Armes are to be punished with Death.]
1678 G. Mackenzie Laws & Customes Scotl. ii. 430 They having been modelled in an army, and taken in the field fighting..they behoved to be judged by the Military Law.
1737 London Mag. Aug. 492/2 'Tis certain the military law may be made much stricter and more severe than the common Law can be made.
1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 295/2 The military law of England in early times existed..in a period of war only.
1994 Daily Tel. 29 Nov. 3/5 The first document was a record that showed Major Carruthers had been given a grant of immunity under an obscure military law known as ‘Condonation’.
military-looking adj. of a military or soldierly appearance.
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1812 M. Edgeworth Absentee in Tales Fashionable Life VI. 89 The count was a fine old, military-looking gentleman, fresh from the chace.
1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes xii. 302 He was a tall, dark, heavily-moustached, rather military-looking man.
1997 Sight & Sound Sept. 20/3 There's a splendid military-looking chap on the Gower peninsula who confounds our prejudices by being in favour of tent-dwelling eco warriors.
military macaw n. a large Central and South American macaw, Ara militaris, which is predominantly green with a red forehead and blue tail feathers.
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1877 Nature 2 Aug. 280/1 A Military Macaw (Ara militaris) from South America.
1959 J. Van Tyne & A. J. Berger Fund. Ornithol. iii. 86 The dorsal origin of these under coverts is most strikingly demonstrated in such a bird as the great Military Macaw.
1998 Daily Tel. 31 Aug. 4/5 Traffic's call for a ban follows a spot-check at 16 shops in Athens in which products from endangered species were found... Also found were live species, including scarlet macaw, Moluccan macaw and military macaw.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > mast > mast carried for fighting purposes
military mast1885
1885 Marine Engineer May 37/1 There are two military masts, in the tops of which four of the improved Gatling guns..will be mounted.
1898 Westm. Gaz. 8 June 5/2 One of the Spanish shot hit the military mast of the Massachusetts.
1918 L. E. Ruggles Navy Explained (at cited word) Military mast, a hollow tube mast or skeleton steel tower erected on battleships.
Military Medal n. (in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries) a former military decoration for distinguished active service on land, instituted in 1916, originally for enlisted soldiers as an equivalent award to officers' Military Cross; (abbreviated M.M.).
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society > armed hostility > military organization > insignia > [noun] > decorations or orders
Order of St Michael1530
Legion of Honour1802
clasp1813
Iron Cross1813
medal1813
star1844
Victoria Cross1856
V.C.1859
Medal of Honour1861
bar1864
yellow jacket1864
V.D.1901
Croix de Guerre1915
Military Cross1915
C.G.M.1916
Military Medal1916
pip1917
M.M.1918
purple heart1918
Maconochie Cross1919
Maconochie Medal1919
wound-stripe1919
T.D.1924
rooty gong1925
Silver Star1932
Ritterkreuz1940
Africa Star1943
ruptured duck1945
Spam medal1945
screaming eagle1946
1916 London Gaz. 5 Apr. 3647/1 Royal Warrant instituting a new medal entitled ‘The Military Medal’... We do..institute and create a silver medal to be awarded to non-commissioned officers and men for individual or associated acts of bravery on the recommendation of a Commander-in-Chief in the field.
1993 London Gaz. 12 Oct. (Suppl.) 16388/1 The Queen has been graciously pleased to approve the award of the Miitary Medal to the undermentioned.
military-minded adj. [compare minded adj.2 2] inclined or well able to think in a military way; having a military caste of mind.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > military man > [adjective] > military-minded
military-minded1897
1897 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 26 242 Against this unreasonable claim, the Wyandots protested, and their protecting government, then represented by Sir Francis Head, promptly settled the matter in a whimsically arbitrary fashion, characteristic of this military-minded ruler.
1910 W. James Mem. & Stud. (1911) xi. 288 Commonwealths fit only for contempt, and liable to invite attack whenever a centre of crystallization for military-minded enterprise gets formed anywhere in their neighbourhood.
1987 M. S. Anderson Europe in Eighteenth Cent. (ed. 3) 222 Even a relatively liberal and progressive administrator like Saint-Germain was extremely unwilling to grant commissions to parvenus at the expense of poor but military-minded nobles.
military offence n. an offence committed by a member of the armed forces; spec. an offence which may be examined or tried by a military court.
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1590 W. Segar Bk. Honor & Armes iv. 58 A Gentleman that is knowne a Spie for the Enemie, or bewraieth the secrets of his owne Princes Campe, abandoneth his Ensigne, or committeth any other Militarie offence.
1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis iv. xix. 307 The next morning, Poliarchvs, who was ashamed for the last nights ouersight, called a Councell of French & Mauritanians: there complaining, that there was a military offence comitted by those which guarded the Sea.
1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 422/2 Military offences, those matters which are cognizable by the courts military, as insubordination, sleeping on guard, desertion, &c.
1945 ‘Master-Sarg’ Yank discovers Austral. 17 When a man has ‘be, with a reddish conglomerated spikeen pegged’ he has been charged with a military offence—which may be that he has ‘gone through’ or been absent without official leave.
2000 Toronto Sun (Electronic ed.) 29 May 15 The verdict went on to explain that many Canadians support a return of the death penalty and that capital punishment continues to apply to certain military offences.
military orchid n. a European orchid, Orchis militaris, with pinkish-grey, helmet-shaped flowers.
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1882 Knowledge 1 588/2 The military orchid (O. militaris), with a handsome spike of purple-red flowers, and a long, two-cleft centre lobe to the lip.
1934 M. J. Godfery Monogr. & Iconogr. Native Brit. Orchidaceæ 168 Orchis militaris L. Soldier Orchid, Military Orchid.
1969 J. E. Lousley Wild Flowers of Chalk & Limestone (ed. 2) vii. 91 It is the resemblance of the hood to an ancient helmet which has led to the plant being called the Soldier or Military Orchid.
2016 J. Lowen Summer Brit. Wildlife 50 Within two years of World War II ending, the military orchid was rediscovered.
military orchis n. = military orchid n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > orchids > early purple orchids
standengussa1400
standelworta1500
gandergoose?1550
adder's grass1551
ragwort1552
cuckoo orchis1578
fool's ballocks1578
Palma Christi1578
standergrass1578
fool's stones1597
fox-stones1597
goat's stones1597
goat stones1597
testicles1597
dead man's finger1604
long purples1604
dead man's thumb1652
man orchis1670
monkey orchisa1678
meadow orchis1753
military orchis1784
male orchis1785
ram's horn1832
lady orchis1846
dead man's hand1853
scorpion plant1866
phalaenopsid1880
walking orchid1910
soldier orchid1934
1768 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 8) II. s.v. Orchis Mountain military Orchis, with a reddish conglomerated spike.]
1784 J. Abercrombie Propagation & Bot. Arrangem. Plants & Trees II. 453 [Orchis] Major, military orchis.
1812 W. Withering Withering's Brit. Plants (ed. 5) II. 29 (heading) Narrow-lipped Military Orchis. O. militaris.
1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 99/2 Military Orchis, Orchis militaris.
1950 G. Brenan Face of Spain vii. 156 I picked a specimen of that rare plant, the Military Orchis, which I knew from the plate in Bentham's Flora but had never found before.
military police n. (a) a police force organized or acting in a military way; (b) a corps responsible for police and disciplinary duties in the armed forces.
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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > military police
military police1821
MP1889
society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > military police
military police1821
1821 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 363 To lay aside gradually the military police, to establish the liberty of the press, to accustom the people to govern and to be governed by each other..will demand a long and severe trial.
1826 W. Badenach (title) Inquiry into the state of the Indian Army, with suggestions for its improvement, and the establishment of a military police for India.
1865 N.Y. Herald 8 Jan. The first steps taken by the conquerors were to preserve order, relieve the inhabitants from a very odious and oppressive military police, to assure them of their restored liberty.
1933 J. Buchan Prince of Captivity i. ii. 66 The military police arrived in quest of him.
1994 Boston Globe 16 Oct. 20 The US Military Police became the de facto law as the Haitian military and police, demoralized and defanged, gave up their campaign of terror.
military policeman n. (a man who is) a member of a military police force.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > military policeman
Jack1854
military policeman1883
redcap1919
snowdrop1944
society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > military police > military policeman
provost marshal1535
provost1590
field marshal1690
provost sergeant1825
Jack1854
military policeman1883
MP1889
redcap1919
shore patrolman1944
snowdrop1944
1883 Leisure Hour Jan. 21/2 Two Malay military policemen patrol the verandahs outside at intervals all night.
1908 A. M. N. Lyons Arthur's ii. vii. 165 Up comes a swaddy in a red cap... ‘That's a policeman—military policeman. Don't you 'ave no larks with 'im.’
1973 J. Stranger Walk Lonely Road v. 44 My own father was a policeman. His father was a military policeman. I suppose it's like the Services. It runs in families.
1993 R. Shilts Conduct Unbecoming: Lesbians & Gays in U.S. Mil. vi. lxiii. 601 As a military policeman, Baum never wore cammies, it was a kind of detail few military people would miss.
military policewoman n. a female member of a military police force.
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1942 N.Y. Times 16 Aug. x. 3/4 It took four military policewomen to rescue him.
1990 A. Beevor Inside Brit. Army xxvii. 328 The fact that WRAC provost (military policewomen) and searchers had already run considerably more risks in Northern Ireland was ignored.
military press n. [ < A. + press n.1 (compare sense 11d s.v.)] Weightlifting an exercise designed to develop the deltoid muscles, in which (from a seated or standing position) a weight is lifted to shoulder height, held there briefly, raised to arm's length above the head, then finally lowered to the starting position.
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1912 E. Aston Mod. Weightlifting 72 One hand military press, a weight (usually a dumbell) taken clean to the shoulder with one hand and pressed overhead to arm's length, keeping heels together and back straight.
1925 F. G. L. Fairlie Official Rep. VIIIth Olympiad, 1924 255 Middleweights... Two hands, Military Press: Galimberti (Italy), 214½ lb.
1959 Muscle Power May 9/1 He knew that his puny military press of 110 pounds was a laughable effort.
1996 D. F. Wallace Infinite Jest 198 Coyle doing military presses with a bare bar.
military reservation n. U.S. = military reserve n. (a).
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1803 in U.S. Statutes at Large (1850) II. 225 So much of that tract, commonly called the ‘Virginia military reservation’, as will amount to one thirty-sixth part of the whole tract.
1850 E. S. Seymour Sketches of Minnesota 105 The Military Reservation embraces..an area of about ten miles square, of which Fort Snelling is near the center.
1900 Congress. Rec. 4 Jan. 649/2 I am not able to see..why the military reservations should be included [in the bill].
1989 T. Clancy Clear & Present Danger ii. 48 The 7th trains farther down the coast at Hunter-Liggett Military Reservation.
military reserve n. (a) [compare reserve n. 5b] North American an area set aside by a government or monarch for the use of a nation's armed forces; (b) [compare reserve n. 1c] , non-regular troops called up under exceptional circumstances, reservists.
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1797 Upper Canada Gaz. 5 Apr. 3/1 Military reserve. The digging of Holes or Pits for loam on the common, is forbidden.
1856 R. Glisan Jrnl. Army Life 5 June (1874) 337 The Chetcoes were coming up to steal away from the military reserve the Indian prisoners belonging to that tribe.
1900 F. E. Herring Canad. Camp Life 20 We came across an old settler there who told us the Indian name for the place (it's a United States military reserve now) is Chil-tin-um.
1975 Facts on File (Nexis) 23 Aug. 612/2 Almost half of $2.7 billion authorized by congress for military reserve training in fiscal 1974.
2000 Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 1: Former U.S.S.R. (B.B.C.) (Nexis) 11 Feb. SU/W0626/S1 The company received several properties from the town and the adjacent military reserve.
military school n. (a) = military academy n.; (b) a boys' school in which the pupils routinely wear uniforms and follow a strict military regimen.
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society > education > place of education > [noun] > educational institution > other types of
academya1583
military school1673
evening school1742
city farm1750
night school1780
school ship1785
neighbourhood school1842
academy school1852
writing school1928
juku1962
1673 R. Head Floating Island 32 There is one very famous Military School which is held in great estimation, in that it brings the Students to a great proficiency in a very little time.
1756 S. Bever Cadet xiii. 114 In short, such good Regulations have been made, that this Military School cannot fail, in Time, to produce excellent Officers.
1861 Amer. Agriculturist July 198/3 The pupils of the Government Military School in France have recently finished some curious and instructive statistics bearing on tobacco.
1985 W. Sheed Frank & Maisie vi. 125 It was off the track as usual..the kind of place that runs small ads between the dubious military schools and the corrective trusses in parts of the paper where no man but Frank has trod.
Military Secretary n. an army staff officer who formerly acted as personal and confidential secretary to the Commander-in-Chief or certain other specified officers (see quot. 1876), and who has responsibility for promotions.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer according to function > [noun] > military secretary
Military Secretary1785
1785 Calcutta Gaz. 17 Feb. 5/1 Captain Norman McLeod is appointed Military Secretary to the Governer General.
1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 255/2 Military Secretary, an officer attached to the staff of the commander-in-chief, to governors of provinces, and to an officer commanding an army in the field. His duties to some extent are confidential, and he relieves the officer under whom he is serving of a great deal of personal correspondence.
1947 R. G. Jessel G, A, & Q iii. 9 At the end of the course, a report on each student is sent to the Military Secretary at the War Office.
1990 A. Beevor Inside Brit. Army xiii. 152 When the post of Commander-in-Chief was abolished on the recommendation of the Esher committee, the Military Secretary was attached to the Secretary of State for War and the appointment lost much of its power.
Military Secretaryship n. the office or position of Military Secretary.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer according to function > [noun] > military secretary > position of
Military Secretaryship1778
1778 E. Draper Let. 12 Feb. in Notes & Queries (1944) 29 July 51/1 Report says, that Dick Sulivan is coming home, in that case, your Brother, I suppose, Steps into the Military Secretaryship.
1912 J. Buchan Moon Endureth viii. 241 He..cabled offering me what he called his Military Secretaryship, and I got seconded, and set off.
military service n. (a) service in the armed forces (cf. service n.1 13a); (b) historical service in war due from a vassal to his feudal superior (cf. service n.1 10a).
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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 > military service > [noun] > type or manner of service > feudal
military service1586
serviceage1601
sword-service1630
1586 Lawes & Ordinances Leycester 3 It well beseemeth all Christians, especially such as professe the militarie seruice, to passe away the time in matters requisite for their profession.
1651 Faithfull Scout No. 10. 77 The said persons shall not be put upon any military service, further then in defence of their Garison.
1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages I. ii. 113 It by no means appears, that any conditions of military service were expressly annexed to these grants.
1863 Act 26 & 27 Victoria c. 65 §17 Her Majesty may direct the Lieutenants of Counties..to call out the Volunteer Corps..for actual Military Service.
1994 Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 11 Nov. a 24/1 Military service creates a bond. Individuals from diverse backgrounds work together.
military tenure n. historical a feudal tenure under which a vassal owed his superior certain defined services in war.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > tenure by service > by military or knight service
knight-service1439
ward1508
chivalry1528
ward-holding1681
military tenure1764
1764 J. Otis Rights Brit. Colonies 51 Would these gentlemen carry us back to the state of the Goths and Vandals, and revive all the military tenures and bondage which our fore-fathers could not bear?
1797 Encycl. Brit. XII. 14/2 Soon after the restoration of king Char. II. when the military tenures were abolished.
1882 Macmillan's Mag. Sept. 366 The old military tenures were abolished and the land-tax was imposed by way of compensation to the Crown for the dues which it thereby lost.
1983 Speculum 58 951 In the distraint of 1256 Henry attempted to expand the net of military obligation to its widest limits by ordering all men with £15 of land or more, held by military tenure, to become knights.
military testament n. historical (in Roman law) a nuncupative will by which a soldier could dispose of his possessions without the formalities required in an ordinary will.
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1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxiv. 459 After this discourse..he distributed, by a military testament, the remains of his private fortune.
1827 H. Taylor Isaac Comnenus iv. iii. 142 Good soul! wounded to death, I fear me! The best of friends—a military testament—left me all he had—alas!
1941 All Eng. Law Rep. 17 Feb. 91 Held not to be entitled to the privilege of a military testament.
military top n. now historical a platform placed at an elevation on the mast of a warship, on which archers (subsequently, sharpshooters and artillerymen) could be stationed.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > spar > [noun] > mast > platform at top of mast > embattled platform on warship
top-castle13..
merlon1790
military top1887
military foretop1895
fighting-top1896
1887 Times (Weekly ed.) 26 Aug. 8/1 Two mainmasts with military-tops.
1918 L. E. Ruggles Navy Explained (at cited word) Military top, a turret or inclosure of steel attached to the mast of a warship, and mounted with machine and one-pounder guns.
military tribune n. see tribune n.1 1(b).
military two-step n. (in old-time dancing) a variation of the two-step, arising from a combination of waltz and march rhythms.
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > ballroom dancing > [noun] > others
quickstep1793
turkey-trot1839
racket1880
Military Schottische1882
veleta1900
military two-step1911
one-step1911
spot dance1911
Paul Jones1914
foxtrot1915
foxtrotting1916
Maxina1917
Boston two-step1918
slow foxtrot1918
twinkle1920
camel-walk1921
Charleston1923
slop1962
1911 Ball Room Mar. 4/1 (advt.) Finnigan's,..Manchester... Inventor of the original Military Two Step.
1966 Listener 24 Nov. 783/3 The military two-step ended with the ripping of Freddie's entire sleeve.
1993 J. Gallas Flying Carpets over Filbert Street 77 I shall dance the Military Two-Step in the middle of town in the middle of the day tomorrow until I fall over!
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society > armed hostility > drill or training > [noun] > place for training
Campe of Marsa1533
military yard1618
training ground1644
Camp Mart1647
training camp1825
boot camp1916
battle-school1942
1618 J. Everard (title) The Arriereban: a sermon preached to the Company of the Military Yarde, at St. Andrewes Church in Holborne.
1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 28 That little use which he hath had of his Armes in the Artillery garden, and Military yard.
1659 J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. 422 The Military-yard near St. Martins in the Fields.
Derivatives
ˈmilitaryism n. now rare militarism.
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society > armed hostility > war > militarism > [noun]
militarism1841
militaryism1848
Prussianism1848
society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > other systems > [noun] > military government
martial law1533
stratocracy1652
sword-law1667
stratarchy1691
statocracya1704
militarism1841
militaryism1848
1848 H. Asquith in Daily News 16 Feb. 7/6 The Indian disaster which had resulted from a blind acquiescence in a crack-brained militaryism.
1886 E. B. Bax Relig. Socialism 6 Hence the prominence of militaryism in all early civilisations.
1917 Mind 26 366 It is not, we may be sure, an individual defect, such as a poverty of his own emotional nature..which is needed to account for..his firm belief in industrialism and individual freedom as the forces which would exorcise militaryism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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