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单词 war-party
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war-partyn.

Brit. /ˈwɔːˌpɑːti/, U.S. /ˈwɔrˌpɑrdi/
1. A political party that favours war.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun] > types of party generally (in various countries)
country party1648
war-party1798
Conservative Party1830
Progressive Party1830
national party1847
Labour Party1850
Nationalist Party1884
Social Credit1935
Third Force1936
third force1956
demandeur1966
People's Power1974
Green Party1977
1798 T. Jefferson Let. to J. Madison 26 Apr. in Writings (1854) IV. 237 Parker has completely gone over to the war party.
1835 T. Mitchell in tr. Aristophanes Acharnians 510 (note) Why Lamachus is thus selected as the representative of the war-party in Athens is pretty evident.
1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. iii. 49 Moore was a bitter Whig—a Whig, at least, as far as opposition to the war-party was concerned.
1976 Classical Q. New Ser. 26 257 The motives of the Spartan war-party are clearly stated.
2.
a. A body of Indian ‘braves’ banded together for war.
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society > armed hostility > warriors collectively > [noun] > American Indian
war-party1755
1755 in J. W. Lydekker Faithful Mohawks (1938) 84 He had ye care of providing for all ye War-parties of Indians that went thro' that place.
a1816 B. Hawkins Sketch Creek Country 1798 & 1799 in Coll. Georgia Hist. Soc. (1848) III. 70 The war parties all march in Indian file, with the leader in front.
1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans I. xiii. 193 The brothers and family of the Mohican formed our war party.
1837 R. M. Bird Nick of Woods III. 108 There is a war-party of fourteen painted Wyandotts sleeping on the Council-square.
1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (rev. ed.) IV. xv. 421 The backwoodsmen, who were hunters like the Indians,..were forming war-parties along the frontier.
b. transferred and figurative.
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society > armed hostility > warriors collectively > [noun]
trumec893
wic897
ferredc1200
knight-weredc1275
preyc1300
legion?1316
companyc1325
punyec1330
virtuec1350
fellowshipc1380
knightheada1382
knighthooda1382
strengtha1382
sop?a1400
strengh?a1400
tropelc1425
armyc1450
framec1450
preparing1497
armourya1500
cohortc1500
cohortationc1500
cateran?a1513
venlin1541
troop1545
guidon1560
crew1570
preparation1573
esquadron1579
bodya1616
armada1654
expedition1693
armament1698
host1807
war-party1921
1921 C. A. W. Monckton Some Exper. New Guinea Resident Magistr. xxiv. 293 They had dispatched..a war party..and remorselessly slaughtered the Oobudura.
1946 Sat. Evening Post 3 Aug. 81/2 Pass the word back to Mr. Topliff at the gallop! Here's his war party!
1957 V. W. Turner Schism & Continuity in Afr. Society i. 7 He inflicted several defeats on a large war-party of Chokwe.
1969 M. Pugh Last Place Left xiv. 99 A solitary raven scout..was summoning the raven war party to the scene.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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