单词 | seat of war |
释义 | > as lemmasseat of war a. A place where something takes place, or where some particular condition of things prevails. seat of war [= Latin sedes belli] : the region in which warfare is going on. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > [noun] > in which something takes place or prevails nestc1390 grounda1400 seat1565 scene1593 locus in quoa1638 the scene of (the) action1650 sitea1657 venuea1843 society > armed hostility > war > [noun] > place of war seat of war1673 theatre of war1914 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus (at cited word) Sedes luxuriæ. Cic. The seate or habitation of riot and sensualitie. 1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) xxxv. 4 Alwayis to fle iniquite And sait of syn and schame. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iv. i. 131 In this seate of peace. View more context for this quotation 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. i. §2. 110 Those parts which were furthest remote from the seat of those grand transactions. 1673 W. Temple Observ. United Provinces i. 44 The other retires into Holland, and makes that the seat of the War. a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1690) i. 9 A plain open Country..where the seat of War may be both Winter and Summer. 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. ii. vii. 259 Foretelling, at what Time, Rome or Babylon or Greece,..should be the most conspicuous Seat of..Tyranny and Dissoluteness. 1803 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) I. 432 Forage, for which every large body of troops must depend upon the country which is to be the seat of its operations. 1810 G. Crabbe Borough xii. 173 And who shall say where guided? to what Seats Of starving Villany? of Thieves and Cheats? 1876 A. J. Evans Through Bosnia iii. 87 Many Croats and Slovenes..were..leaving for the seat of war. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) xvii. 278 The region which has been the seat of these changes. < as lemmas |
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