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单词 warfare
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warfaren.

Brit. /ˈwɔːfɛː/, U.S. /ˈwɔrˌfɛ(ə)r/
Forms: see war n.1; also 1500s -far, 1500s–1600s Scottish -fair.
Etymology: < war n.1 + fare n.1
1. A going to war (cf. 2); the action of carrying on, or engaging in, war; the act or state of conflict; military life or service.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military service > [noun]
knightshipa1175
armsc1300
knighthoodc1384
warfarec1485
service1549
soldiership1561
soldierfare1579
military service1586
stipend1604
caska1616
milice1635
lance1641
militia1641
soldiering1643
camp1725
military1757
society > armed hostility > war > [noun] > action of waging war
warrayinga1300
warring13..
warfarec1485
war-makingc1485
warfaring1598
waginga1674
levying1769
belligerence1814
war-fighting1965
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 107 Out of his lordis land suld pas nouthir hors na men till othir contreis jn armes na werefare.
c1530 A. Barclay Egloges iii. sig. Niij v For nought is in warrefare, saue care and mysery.
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Sam. xxviii. 1 The Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare . View more context for this quotation
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxviii. 166 The most common Souldier, may demand the due wages of his warrefare, as a debt.
1841 J. F. Cooper Deerslayer I. vii. 112 He was as yet unpractised in the ruthless expedients of savage warfare.
1900 Longman's Mag. Mar. 440 Having acquired..a brevet colonelcy in Indian frontier warfare.
2. to go (forth) a warfare, to go to the war; also to go (etc.) on warfare, to pass (forth) in warfare (Scottish); to send a warfare. Also a warfare, in the field (= Latin militiae). Obsolete.In these phrases a is a prep.1, but is often mistaken for the indefinite article.
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society > armed hostility > military operations > [adverb]
in the field?1473
a warfare1483
on (also upon) commando1824
society > armed hostility > war > wage war [verb (intransitive)] > go to war
to take the plainc1380
to go to war or warsc1450
to take the field1482
to go (etc.) on warfare1483
to pass (forth) in warfare1483
field1535
to go out1548
to go to the war(s)1600
to be (also go) on the warpath1841
to wash one's spears1892
society > armed hostility > war > wage (war) [verb (transitive)] > send to war
to send a warfare1483
1483 in H. E. Malden Cely Papers (1900) 144 Richard Awrey..ȝede forthe a warfare in a schypp of hys owne.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 Cor. ix. 7 Who goeth a warfare [τίς στρατεύεται] eny tyme att his awne cost?
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. K.iv Torquate her housband was in Asie a warre fare.
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. 94 Þir ȝoung men war ordanit to be reddy to pas in werefare aganis þare Inemyis.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 201v Alexander hauing taken a viage on warrefare into Asia.
1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 24 He whiche had maried a wyfe, the same yeare shoulde not be forced to go on warrefaire.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cclxxv Not only at home, but in the campe also, and a warfare.
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xliv. 1) i. f. 170 Rather yt we should go a warfare under the crosse.
1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. 137 What iniurie doth the Prince to the Captaine, that sendes him a warfare, if he makes him sure, to haue the victory?
3. transferred and figurative.
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1549 E. Allen tr. L. Juda Paraphr. Reuelacion S. John vii, f. 9–12, in M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II So long as they remayne in the warrefare of this transitorye lyfe.
1657 T. Aylesbury Treat. Confession of Sinne 348 Nor can there in this spiritual warfare be better weapons than prayers and tears.
1746 A. Pope Verses Upon M—— 3 Who, with herself, and others from her Birth, Finds all her Life one Warfare upon Earth.
1807 Salmagundi 15 Oct. 327 All the various artillery of fashionable warfare.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 194 They are most skilful in legal warfare.
1902 Chambers's Jrnl. June 391/1 It is prepared to spend vast sums of money and to employ every tactic permitted in modern commercial ‘warfare’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

warfarev.

Etymology: < warfare n.
Obsolete.
intransitive. To wage war; to take part in war; to serve in the field. Also figurative.
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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
1565 T. Stapleton tr. Bede Hist. Church Eng. iii. xviii. f. 94 Wherein having with much devotion warfared a longe time to God.
1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. Concl. f. 427 Euery sort and sexe that warfare in the fielde of humaine life.
1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. xxiii. 40 Yet with these shippes we make them muche more daungerous, robbing and warrefairinge in them, no otherwise then we do in the maine lande.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Militare, to warrefarre, to follow the warres.
1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 369 A certaine Germane warfaring in Italy.

Derivatives

ˈwarˌfarer n. Obsolete a warrior.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > warrior > [noun]
wyec900
rinkeOE
earlOE
manlOE
champion?c1225
warrer?c1225
drightmanc1275
here-dringc1275
here-gumec1275
here-kempec1275
wal-kempc1275
warrior1297
battlerc1300
fighterc1300
battle-wrighta1400
man-of-war1449
frekec1475
war-manc1485
combatant1489
Mars1565
warfarer1591
combater1598
Mavortian1598
brave1601
fire-eater1792
war-wolf1810
war-hound1812
war-dog1846
toa1860
Mavors1868
fightist1877
ninja1964
simba1964
1591 J. Eliot tr. B. de Loque Disc. Warre 31 Thus much for the rules of warfarers.
ˈwarˌfaring n.
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society > armed hostility > war > [noun] > action of waging war
warrayinga1300
warring13..
warfarec1485
war-makingc1485
warfaring1598
waginga1674
levying1769
belligerence1814
war-fighting1965
1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Heautontimoroumenos Argt., in Terence in Eng. 192 Menedemus..forced his sonne Clinia..to goe a warrefaring.
1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso (1674) i. xxxv. 44 His indiscreet way of warfaring in Asia.
1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes ii. 103 During these wild warfarings and strugglings.
1876 W. Morris Story of Sigurd iii. 196 The Burg of the Niblung people and the heart of their warfaring.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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