单词 | to make war |
释义 | > as lemmasto make war d. to make war: to carry on hostilities. literal and figurative. Const. on, upon, with; also against, and †to, unto, or dative. ΘΚΠ 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 c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 87 Weorre makede Turnus. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 6095 His folc made euere uaste worre ȝut after is deþe. 1439 Rolls of Parl. V. 17/2 The seide Phelip..hath contynuelly..made werre unto the seide John. 1515 in Archaeologia 47 302 In caace the duke or any other lordes wol make garriable werr ayeinst the castell. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lvii. 193 When yuoryn herd this he made me warre & was here before my cete with all his pusance. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. vij Item he assembled certain Lancashire and Cheshire men to the entent to make warre on the foresaid Lordes. 1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) i. 126 As werrie waspis aganis Goddis word makis weir. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 588/2 That if the K. would not confirme the same, they would not cease to make him warre, til he shoulde satisfie their requests in that behalfe. a1586 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David (1823) xxxvii. xiii Bad folkes shall fall,..Who to make warre with God presumed. 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. iv. 216 He leuied a puissant armie, and made warre against Barbarossa. 1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. xxvi. 94 He made warre to the Athenians. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 73 His valour rests yet untried, having made no warre but by disputation. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iii. ii. 127 Dro. In her forhead, arm'd and reuerted, making warre against her heire. View more context for this quotation 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. ii. sig. G3/1 To make Warre, Belligerate. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 331 As the fox makes war upon all animals, so all others seem to make war upon him. 1795 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity (ed. 3) II. ii. ii. 76 Aristotle maintained the general right of making war upon Barbarians. 1885 Cent. Mag. 30 396/1 The..colonists were accustomed..to make war on the creatures of the forest. 1918 Nation (N.Y.) 7 Feb. 129/2 To get more beef the Government is making war on the cattle tick. < as lemmas |
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