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单词 to meet on
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to meet on
b. Originally †transitive (reflexive); now intransitive. To come together as rivals in a battle, fight, etc. †to meet on: to come into conflict with (obsolete).
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society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > contend in battle [verb (reflexive)] > meet in battle
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OE Beowulf 2592 Næs ða long to ðon, þæt ða aglæcean hy eft gemetton.]
c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 1950 Bi side winchestre in a feld to gadere hii hom mette.
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 3325 (MED) Þai metten hem in asty Bi o forestes side.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 139 (MED) Whan þey mette to gidres, hap was vnstable and vnstedefast.
c1450 (a1400) Libeaus Desconus (Calig. A.ii) (1969) 1638 Þe styward..Fell of hys stede bakward: So harde þey two metten.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 7815 Bothe þe grekis on þe grene, & þe grym troiens, Mettyn with mayne þaire myghtis to kythe.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 8288 He macchit hym to Menelay, & met on þe kyng.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 215 The day of battel is sett, baith pairties meites, baith sydes ȝokis.
1616 S. S. Honest Lawyer v. sig. K2 We met in single combate in the field.
1673 P. Leycester Antiq. Great Brit. ii. ii. iv. 122 Both Armies meet near the Town of Lincoln, and being put in order, joyn Battel.
1707 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II. xi. 13 In Naseby-Fields both Armies, met, Their Envy, like their Numbers, great.
1782 W. Cowper Friendship 137 How fiercely will they meet and charge! No combatants are stiffer.
1831 W. Scott Rob Roy (new ed.) p. xliv Where so many gallant men were met in arms, it would be shameful to part without a trial of skill.
1898 B. Mitford Induna's Wife 5 At that place we met in fierce battle and rolled back the night of Dingane and thus saved the Amandebeli as a nation.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 818/1 Both sides [in the American Civil War] fought with an even more relentless determination than is usual when ‘armed nations’ meet in battle.
1998 S. Anderson 1314 & all That 82 The two armies met on either side of the River Forth at Stirling.
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