| 单词 | sergeant-major major |
| 释义 | > as lemmassergeant-major major ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer by rank > [noun] > general > types of sergeant-general1579 lieutenant-general1589 sergeant-major1594 colonel-generalc1595 major-general1633 general officer1647 under-general1698 1594 J. Smythe Certen Instr. Militarie 60 If a Lord Marshall or a Sergeant Maior Maior, haue..10000 or more or fewer piquers to reduce into one bodie of squadron, hee may [etc.]. c1595 T. Maynarde Sir Francis Drake his Voy. (1849) 14 We buried Captaine Arnolde Baskerville, our serjant-major generall. 1599 J. Chamberlain Let. 17 Jan. (1939) I. 62 Sir Ferdinando Gorge is named to be Sergeant Major [of the army in Ireland]. 1625 G. Markham Souldiers Accidence 62 The Serieant-Maior of the Horse, which in some discipline is called the Commissary-generall. 1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia ii. xvii. 222 The Sergeant Major, being the second Commander to Don Iohn. 1642 List Army Earl Essex 1 His Excellencie Robert Earle of Essex, Capt. Generall. Sir Iohn Merrick, Serjeant Major Generall, and President of the Councell of Warre. 1644 R. Symonds Diary (1859) 50 Lord Wentworth was Serjeant Major of the Horse. 1646 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. II. viii. 147 [Richard III] Went himselfe in Person in the head of his Army..executing Himselfe the duty of a Sergeant Major. 1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vii. 178 Philip Skippon..was now made Serjeant-Major-General of the Army, by the absolute power of the two Houses. < as lemmas |
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