单词 | outroad |
释义 | † outroadn. Obsolete. An act of riding out; esp. a warlike excursion or raid, a sortie. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > raid > [noun] roadeOE skeck1297 chevacheec1380 forayc1400 reisea1450 raid1455 bodrag1537 skeg1542 reid1544 inroad1548 outroad1560 excursion1577 excurse1587 bodraging1590 cavalcade1591 chevachance1592 chivancy1616 algaradea1649 course1651 outrakea1765 commando1791 razzia1821 muru1836 chappow1860 night raid1872 1560 Bible (Geneva) 1 Macc. xv. 41 He set horsemen and garisons, that they might make outrodes by the waies of Iudea. 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xviii. ii. 107 All those captives, whome in many out-rodes they had taken and carried away. 1630 H. Lord Display Two Forraigne Sects 81 Some of the Raiahs..making Outroades prey on the Caffaloes passing by the Way. a1656 J. Hales Golden Remains (1659) i. 89 He stood the shock of fifty set battels, besides all sieges and outrodes. 1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia V. xix. i. 403 Still another assault or invasive outroad, northward against the Russian Magazines. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < n.1560 |
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