单词 | sally out |
释义 | > as lemmasto sally out 1. intransitive. Of a warlike force: To issue suddenly from a place of defence or retreat in order to make an attack; spec. of a besieged force, to make a sortie. Also to sally out. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > lay siege [verb (intransitive)] > sally to fall out1535 breakc1540 sally1560 sail1583 sorta1600 sortie1899 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccccxxx Duke Henry..hauinge lost..many of his men, what tyme the Marques saleed out, and fought. 1590 R. Williams Briefe Disc. Warre 51 Hauing an easie entrie into the ditch, the defendants dare not sally. 1590 R. Williams Briefe Disc. Warre 52 Alledging..that the defendants may the better saly out. ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xxiv. 375 And now, all girt in armes; the Ports, set wide, They sallied forth. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 200 The happy repulse of the Spaniards sallying upon our Cannon. 1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V II. iv. 227 Leyva, with his garrison, sallied out and attacked the rear of the French. 1777 W. Heath in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 338 The enemy had sallied, early one morning, and surprised one of our out~guards. 1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi xix. 382 A nest of lake pirates who sallied out by night to kill and plunder. 1881 B. Jowett tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War I. 172 The Mitylenaeans with their whole force sallied out against the Athenian camp. to sally out ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > be copious [verb (intransitive)] > digress overleapc1400 to cast, fet, fetch, go, take a compass?a1500 digress1530 traverse1530 decline?1543 square1567 rovea1575 deviate1638 to step aside1653 swerve1658 to sally out1660 transgress1662 to run off1687 canceleera1697 cantona1734 excurse1748 to travel out of the record1770 divagate1852 desult1872 sidetrack1893 1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 51 And we have, with a great deal of Patience, suffered you to sally out. 1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 55 My Lords, this ought not to come from the Bar to the Bench; if you sally out thus about your Conscience. 1661 R. Boyle Some Consider. Style of Script. (1675) 58 Sometimes the Prophets, in the midst of the Mention of particular Mercies,..Sally out into Pathetical Excursions relating to the Messias. < as lemmas |
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