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单词 brigand
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brigandn.

/ˈbrɪɡənd/
Forms: Middle English bregaund, Middle English brigaunt, brygaunt, Middle English–1600s brigant, 1500s brigane, brygand, 1500s–1700s brigan, 1500s– brigand.
Etymology: Middle English < Old French brigand (14th cent. in Littré) = Provençal bregan irregular soldier; probably < Italian brigante , of which the primary meaning might be ‘skirmisher’, < brigare : see brigue v. and brigade n. It occurs in medieval Latin in 14th cent. in the forms brigancii, brigantii, brigantini, brigantes as the name of ‘une maniere de gens d'armes courant et apert, à pié’.
1. A light-armed, irregular foot-soldier. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by branch of army > [noun] > foot-soldier > types of
kern1351
brigand?a1400
yeomana1400
peltast1600
miquelet1670
appointee1728
hoplite1728
light-bob1778
askar1826
zephyr1847
dough1909
?a1400 Morte Arth. 2096 Thane bowmene of Bretayne..Bekerde with bregaundez of ferre in tha laundez.
a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 246 Þe brigauntis of þe Frensch side took þe kyngis cariage.
?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth lvi. f. 80v More lyke a skirmysshe among brygandes and rouers than to any appoynted or ordred batell.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xlvii. 66 The duke..entred into Heynalt..and iiii. c. speares, besyde the brigantes, came before Quesnoy.
1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc x. 250 Archers of unequalled skill, Brigans and pikemen.
2. One who lives by pillage and robbery: a freebooter, bandit; especially a member of one of the gangs of desperadoes infesting the mountainous districts of Italy, Spain, Turkey, etc.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > brigand > [noun]
brigand1421
snaphance1539
thief errant1553
freebooter1570
filibuster1591
bandit1594
Robin Hood1597
mosser1651
moss-trooper1651
free-rider1821
cateran1870
1421 Sir H. Luttrell in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. ii. 27 I. 85 Ther ys no steryng of none evyl doers, saf byonde the rivere of Sayne..of certains brigaunts.
1490 Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) iv. 125 We have slayne soo many theves & brygauntes that I canne not number theym.
1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Scotl. 283/2 in Chron. I It was taken from him by certaine Brygants and robbers.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Brigand, a Footman armed..In old time when those kind of Soulders marched, they held all to be good prize, that they could purloin from the people, and thereupon this word now signifies also a Theef, purse-taker, or High-way robber.
1789 A. Young Jrnl. 1 Aug. in Trav. France (1792) i. 154 Those troops of brigands, reported to be formidable.
1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands III. 257 The Neapolitan brigands.
1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxii. 29 Such names as brigands and murderers are not uncommonly used by established governments to describe those who are in revolt against their authority.
3. attributive.
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1522 Worlde & Chylde (de Worde) (1909) sig. A.vv Brygaunt Ernys I haue beten to backe & to bonys.
1815 J. Scott Visit to Paris (ed. 2) Pref. p. xix The wild brigand spirit.
1859 J. D. Burn Autobiogr. Beggar Boy (ed. 4) 128 He wore a sailor's dress, with a sort of brigand hat.

Derivatives

briganded adj.
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1872 C. Hardwick Trad., Superstitions, & Folk-lore 13 Briganted, fighting thieves.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

brigandv.

Etymology: < brigand n.
rare.
passive: To be attacked by brigands.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > brigandage or freebooting > subject to brigandage [verb (passive)]
brigand1886
1886 Cent. Mag. Apr. 856/1 Here we ought to have been briganded.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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