单词 | to levy up |
释义 | > as lemmasto 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. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [verb (transitive)] > levy or mobilize make?a1160 host1297 arear1366 araisec1386 raisea1425 to call to account1434 rearc1450 levyc1500 riga1513 erect1520 leave1590 to call to arms1592 compound1614 re-embody1685 mobilize1853 remobilize1886 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. < as lemmas |
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