单词 | war-party |
释义 | war-partyn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1755 |
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