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单词 to levy up
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to levy up
4. To enlist (armed men), enrol, bring into the field (soldiers, an army); to muster the available force of (a district). Also, to levy up.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [verb (transitive)] > levy or mobilize
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to call to account1434
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riga1513
erect1520
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to call to arms1592
compound1614
re-embody1685
mobilize1853
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c1500 Melusine (1895) 135 The men of armes, that he leuyed fro the garnysons.
1557 Act 4 & 5 Philip & Mary c. 3 §1 To muster their Maties People..and to levie a nomber of them for the Service of their Maties.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) v. sig. Pp2v With sufficient authoritie to leauie forces.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. iii. vi. §10. 75 This was the last fight of that huge Armie leauied against Greece.
1671 L. Addison W. Barbary 40 A small Cavila, not able to levy above 500 in all.
a1676 H. Guthry Mem. (1702) 45 The General and his Council appointed the Earl of Montross..to levy Fife, Strathern, Angus, and Merne.
1761–2 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) IV. lxiv. 745 An army of twelve thousand men was suddenly levied.
1797 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) I. 17 Tippoo Sultaun suffered the military force which they had levied..to land in his country.
1843 H. Gavin Feigned & Factitious Dis. 11 Men apprehensive of being levied, or actually levied, or forced into the military or naval services.
figurative.a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) iv. 55 Why should nature have that power in me To leavy up a thousand bleeding sorrowes.1705 J. Philips Blenheim 176 As when two adverse winds,..Engage with horrid shock,..Levying their equal force with utmost rage.
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