请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 sally out
释义

> as lemmas

to 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.
figurative.1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. 196 Like a good Souldier whiles his strength is full he sallies upon the peoples liberties.
extracted from sallyv.2
to sally out
b. to sally out: to make a digression in speech. Obsolete.
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.
extracted from sallyv.2
<
as lemmas
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/11/13 13:07:03