单词 | camp-fight |
释义 | † camp-fightn. Obsolete. ‘In law writers [from 17th cent.] the trial of a cause by duel, or a legal combat of two champions in the field, for decision of some controversy’. Chambers Cycl. Supp. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] > single combat or duel handplayeOE deraignc1300 battlea1400 duellation1502 two-hand battlec1503 combat1567 push of pick1578 monomachy1582 combacy1586 hand fight1587 duel1589 rencounter1590 single fight1598 field meeting1603 camp-fight1605 duello1606 judicial combat1610 fight of stand?1611 stand-fight?1611 business1612 monomachia1624 single combat1625 single field1630 duelliona1637 rencontrea1722 affair of honour1737 meeting1813 holmgang1847 mensur1848 duomachy1885 1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence iii. 64 If it were a cryme deseruing death, then was the Camp-fight for lyf and death. 1627 G. Hakewill Apologie iv. ii. 293 For their tryall by Camp-fight, the Accuser was with the perill of his owne body, to prooue the accused guilty. 1644 E. Coke Inst. Lawes Eng. iii. 221. a1698 W. Temple Introd. Hist. Eng. 572 The Trials Ordeal, and of Camp-fight. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1605 |
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