单词 | under-officer |
释义 | under-officern. A sub-officer. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer or soldier of rank > [noun] > subordinate officer captainc1380 under-officerc1400 petty officer1587 subaltern?1608 sub-officer1609 subaltern officer1611 sub1710 company officer1786 C.P.O.1907 c1400 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iii. iv. 53 Confedered and entendyd with other suche brybours, whiche that were your vnder offycers. ?c1425 Lucidarie (1909) 29 Hedes & vndirofficeres of hooly chirche. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. ii. f. 59 He spake to al the vnder officers sharplye. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres ii. 22 Vnto whom the souldiers and vnder~officers are to obey. 1635 T. Jackson Humiliation Sonne of God 333 Whether Pilat himselfe did write this title, or caused it to be written by some under-Officer of the Court. 1658–9 Ld. Falkland in T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 154 Major-general Overton might have been committed by the general as an under-officer. 1708 London Gaz. No. 4472/1 Bezeredi, with several of his Under-Officers,..divulged it to the common Soldiers. 1796 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry 159 Two under officers are sent from the rear division. 1866 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. IX. xiii. 217 All officers and under-officers were obliged to appear at his quarters. Derivatives ˈunder-ˌofficered adj.1 furnished with under-officers. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed forces > [adjective] > officered > not or insufficiently unofficered1655 under-officered1844 1844 W. M. Thackeray Barry Lyndon i. vii, in Fraser's Mag. Apr. 399/1 The Prussian army..was officered and under-officered by native Prussians. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1400 |
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