请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 to bear arms
释义

> as lemmas

to bear arms
a. to bear arms.
(a) To serve as a soldier; to fight (for a country, cause, etc.). [After Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French porter armes (c1100 in this sense; French porter armes); compare classical Latin arma ferre.]
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military service > serve as a soldier [verb (intransitive)]
to bear armsc1325
to take armsa1425
serve1430
war1535
to trail a pikec1550
sold1564
to follow the drum1575
to see and serve1590
soldierize1593
militate1625
soldier1647
be in buff1701
to go (a-)soldiering1756
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 11788 Alle þat armes bere Aȝen þe king in þe worre.
1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 36 All they that were of age to bere armes shold be redy on the morn erly for to goo..fighte with their enemyes.
1549 W. Thomas Hist. Italie f. 103v Candia again rebelled. Against whom a newe armie was prepared..for all theim that shoulde beare armes in that enterprise.
a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. H3 Vilde wretch, and why hast thou of all vnkinde, Borne armes against thy brother?
1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor ii. iii. sig. E4 The most fatall & dangerous exploit, that euer I was rang'd in, since I first bore armes. View more context for this quotation
1691 J. Hartcliffe Treat. Virtues 121 Neither among the old Germans did any one bear Arms until he was honored with a Spear and Target in their State-Assemblys.
1774 Ld. Kames Sketches Hist. Man II. ii. ix. 13 In Switzerland..every male who can bear arms is regimented, and subjected to military discipline.
1795 Sewel's Hist. Quakers (ed. 3) I. Pref. 7 Bearing arms and resisting the wicked by fighting, they always have counted unlawful.
1824 F. Plowden Human Subordination 153 The removal of all disabilities for Catholics to bear arms.
1889 N.Y. Times 13 Oct. 4 There is scarcely a large village that has not some memorial of those of its inhabitants who bore arms in the war.
1945 P. Gallico in Esquire July 48/2 The gentlest, most decent, tenderhearted and humane men who ever bore arms in organized warfare.
2011 Irish Times 21 May b13/1 The so-called white-feather men who..refuse to bear arms for their country.
(b) Heraldry. To wear or display arms ( 5a). Now chiefly historical. [Compare Anglo-Norman and Middle French porter armes (mid 14th cent. or earlier in this sense).]
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > exhibit armorial bearings [verb (intransitive)]
to bear arms1442
to give arms1563
1442 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1442 §32. m. 3 The said carrakes, aryved and entred the port of the isle of Rodes..beryng the armes of the hospitall of Seint John Jerusalem.
1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xlv. f. 245v I am for euer hereafter vtterly vnworthy to beare armes, or to haue ye honorable title of a Knight.
a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) viii. 489 Advanced to the Title of a Lord or Baron; permitted to beare Arms.
1738 F. Wise Let. to Dr. Mead 27 The Emperor of Germany is sometimes stiled The Eagle, and the King of France The Lilly, from the Arms they bear.
1849 Gentleman's Mag. July 33/1 The immediate question to be solved would be, whether his grandfather was entitled to bear arms.
1904 Geneal. Mag. Feb. 442 Edward of Angouléme..probably never bore arms.
2009 K. Coombs in K. Sloan European Visions iii. 80/2 Any person bearing arms was by definition ‘gentle’.
extracted from armsn.
<
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:2024/9/20 20:36:28