单词 | after-order |
释义 | > as lemmasafter-order after-order n. Brit. , U.S. Military (now historical) a later or subsequent order.ΚΠ 1648 E. Hyde Full Answer to Infamous & Trayterous Pamphlet 33 Of fifty thousand pounds Ordred for payment of the Kings Army, ten thousand pounds was taken by an after Order out of that summe to satisfie a new motion and importunity from the Scots. 1776 G. Washington Gen. Orders 3 July in Papers (1993) Revolutionary War Ser. V. 189 After Orders. That the several Brigades and Troops be at their Alarm posts every morning at day break. 1882 R. C. Dudgeon Hist. Edinb., or Queen's Regiment Light Infantry Militia v. 57 In an ‘after-order’, published on 20th January 1811, the picket at Greenlaw is ordered to be reinforced by 1 subaltern, 3 sergeants, 6 corporals, and 34 privates of the Edinburgh regiment. 1907 H. C. Wylly Campaigns of Magenta & Solferino, 1859 ix. 195 Then follows the after-order, directing that the crossing on the 24th be now carried out on the 23rd. 2008 G. M. Carbone Nathanael Greene viii. 194 Its commander..had been captured, along with three hundred British and Tory soldiers, and, Greene wrote in his after orders ‘about two hundred Negro's’. < as lemmas |
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