单词 | to go a volunteer |
释义 | > as lemmasto go (also serve) a volunteer ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military service > serve as a soldier [verb (intransitive)] > serve as volunteer to go (also serve) a volunteer1650 1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico i. 24 Octavio Forneze..served a Volunteer against the French. 1685 J. Crowne Sir Courtly Nice i. 2 They will go Voluntiers into a Battle, but must be prest to marriage. 1718 M. Prior Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) Ded. sig.Aa3v In the first Dutch War He went a Voluntier under the Duke of York. 1743 R. Russell Let. 13 Aug. in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) I. i. 2 He had the resolution to part from what he loved, and to go a volunteer into the army. 1760 Cautions & Advices to Officers of Army 23 Whilst Suspicions only are against him, there is a possibility of wiping them out, and that is by desiring to go a Voluntier with the Grenadiers the first desperate Attack they are ordered on. 1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1879) I. 215/2 He endeavoured to prevent the young men who offered to go volunteers from giving in their names. < as lemmas |
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