| 单词 | to join battle | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto join battle  11.  In obvious phrases, as  to have, keep, make, smite, strike, battle (all obsolete);  to †bid, offer, refuse, accept, take (arch.) battle;  to join battle; also,  to do battle, to fight;  to give battle, to attack, engage;  to pitch a battle (cf. pitched battle at sense  1b). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > contend in battle or give battle			[verb (intransitive)]		 fightc900 to bid, offer, refuse, accept, take (arch.) battle1297 to do battle1297 to give battle1297 strive13.. battle1330 to instore a battle1382 fettlec1400 pugnec1425 toilc1425 to deliver battle1433 conflict?a1475 bargain1487 mellaya1500 liverc1500 to come out1511 field1535 combat1589 to manage arms1590 sway1590 society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > contend in battle or give battle			[verb (intransitive)]		 > join or meet in battle to come togetherOE to lay togetherc1275 smitec1275 to have, keep, make, smite, strike, battle1297 joustc1330 meetc1330 copec1350 assemblea1375 semblea1375 coup?a1400 to fight togethera1400 strikea1400 joinc1400 to join the battle1455 to commit battle?a1475 rencounter1497 to set ina1500 to pitch a battlea1513 concura1522 rescounter1543 scontre1545 journey1572 shock1575 yoke1581 to give in1610 mix1697 to engage a combat1855 to run (or ride) a-tilt1862 society > armed hostility > war > wage war			[verb (intransitive)]		 warc1230 to make warc1275 warraya1300 battle1330 hostey?a1400 to make (a) fighta1400 to have, keep, make, smite, strike, battle1542 warfare1565 operate1781 society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > contend in battle or give battle			[verb (intransitive)]		 > refuse battle to bid, offer, refuse, accept, take (arch.) battle1855 1297    R. Gloucester's Chron. 514  				Hii mette hom atte laste..at Lincolne..& smite there an bataile. a1400						 (a1325)						    Cursor Mundi 		(Trin. Cambr.)	 l. 471  				Aȝeyn him ȝaf he batail grym. 1460    in  Polit., Relig., & Love Poems 		(1866)	 185  				Þe world biddiþ me bataile blijf. 1470–85    T. Malory Morte d'Arthur  i. iii  				His enemies..did a great battle upon his men. 1477    W. Caxton tr.  R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason 		(1913)	 102  				They had batayll togeder. 1495    Act 11 Hen. VII c. 63 Preamble  				Divers..rered Warre, and made Bataill ayenst him. a1513    H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge 		(1521)	  ii. xvi. sig. p.viii  				William Conquerour Pight a stronge batell. 1542    N. Udall tr.  Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 336  				The battail was kept in Cherronea. ?1577    J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 41  				To make battel vpon the Sabboth day. 1611    Bible 		(King James)	 Gen. xiv. 8  				They joyned battell with them, in the vale of  Siddim.       View more context for this quotation a1616    W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 		(1623)	  v. iv. 66  				Here pitch our Battaile, hence we will not  budge.       View more context for this quotation a1616    W. Shakespeare Henry V 		(1623)	  ii. iv. 54  				When Cressy Battell fatally was  strucke.       View more context for this quotation 1656    H. More Antidote Atheism  ii. viii. 117  				He did bid battel to the very fiercest of them. 1697    J. Dryden tr.  Virgil Georgics  ii, in  tr.  Virgil Wks. 82  				Before the Battel  joins.       View more context for this quotation 1720    D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 132  				Shall we give Battle to the Imperialists, or not? 1847    Maxwell Vict. Brit. Armies 270  				He advanced with sixty thousand men, determined to offer battle. 1851    E. Creasy Fifteen Decisive Battles 58  				Miltiades immediately joined battle and gained the victory. 1851    E. Creasy Fifteen Decisive Battles 185  				He should abstain from giving or taking battel. 1855    C. Kingsley Westward Ho! 		(1878)	 xxxi. 496  				The Spaniard had refused battle. 1881    R. L. Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque 85  				We must strive and do battle for the truth. to join battle  a.   to join battle (formerly also  to join the battle): to come together, as opposing forces, and begin a battle (cf. sense  12); to enter upon a battle, or (figurative) a contest of any kind. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > contend in battle or give battle			[verb (intransitive)]		 > join or meet in battle to come togetherOE to lay togetherc1275 smitec1275 to have, keep, make, smite, strike, battle1297 joustc1330 meetc1330 copec1350 assemblea1375 semblea1375 coup?a1400 to fight togethera1400 strikea1400 joinc1400 to join the battle1455 to commit battle?a1475 rencounter1497 to set ina1500 to pitch a battlea1513 concura1522 rescounter1543 scontre1545 journey1572 shock1575 yoke1581 to give in1610 mix1697 to engage a combat1855 to run (or ride) a-tilt1862 1455    Battle of St. Albans in  Paston Lett. I. 332  				They joynid batayle anon; and it was done with inne di. houre. 1539    Bible 		(Great)	 1 Sam. iv. 2  				When they ioyned ye battel, Israel was put to the worse. 1539    Bible 		(Great)	 1 Kings xx. 29  				In the vii. daye the battayle was ioyned. 1605    W. Camden Remaines  i. 190  				That morning that he was to ioyne battell with Harold. 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. 1770    J. Langhorne  & W. Langhorne tr.  Plutarch Lives 		(1879)	 I. 29/2  				After the battle was joined, [he] routed his army, and took his city. 1893    R. Williams in  Traill Soc. Eng. I. i. 33  				When two armies were on the point of joining battle. < as lemmas | 
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