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单词 to make a sortie
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to make a sortie
a. A dash or sally by a besieged garrison upon an investing force. Frequently in to make a sortie.
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society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > [noun] > discontinuing of siege > sally
issuea1450
excourse?1520
sally1560
sallying1560
a sault out1560
out-sally1598
outfall1637
sortie1778
razoo1864
1778 H. Walpole Let. 8 Oct. (1967) XXIV. 413 Before their last sortie, one heard nothing but What news of the fleets?
1795 W. Seward Anecd. II. 217 If the enemy..thought fit to make any sortie from the town.
1811 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) VII. 285 In case your sortie should succeed (which will place the war on its legs again in the best manner).
1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico III. vi. vi. 138 To repel the sorties, made..by the militia of the capital.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §9. 557 A sortie from Dublin had already broken up Ormond's siege of the capital.
in extended use.1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 2 Jan. (1941) 2 The rheumatism, exasperated by my sortie of yesterday, has seized on my..knee.1831 C. C. F. Greville Mem. (1875) II. xiii. 119 She was mighty glorious about her sortie upon Lambton.1859 Once a Week I. 455 He made a sortie from the box like a lion rushing into the circus.
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