army

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And so soon as your army is assembled, let them by and by be exercised, every man to know his weapon, and that there be all other things prepared in readiness, for your army, as if they should march upon a day's warning, especially carriages, and a commissary of victuals, and a master of ordnance. "

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  1. noun A large body of people organized and trained for land warfare.
  2. noun The entire military land forces of a country.
  3. noun A tactical and administrative military unit consisting of a headquarters, two or more corps, and auxiliary forces.

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  • I never yet knew one of an independent spirit get on in the army,--the secret of success in the army is the spirit of subordination Which is a poor spirit after all," said my mother; "but the child is not in the army And it is well for him that he is not," said my father; "but you do not talk wisely; the world is a field of battle, and he who leaves the ranks, what can he expect but to be cut down? —  Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2)
  • Small as his army was the bulldog fighter saw with amazement that it was practically unconquerable in a square, hand-to-hand struggle Once more he was forced to maneuver for advantage in position. —  The Southerner A Romance of the Real Lincoln
  • The German thinks this method a hap-hazard method, and burdens men with rules, and the army is Germany's greatest school-master along those lines. —  Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View
  • On the whole, if something satisfactory be not done, the army (already so much reduced in officers by daily resignations as not to have a sufficiency to do the common duties of it) must either cease to exist at the end of the campaign, or will exhibit an example of more virtue, fortitude, self-denial, and perseverance, than has perhaps ever yet been paralleled in the history of human enthusiasm The dissolution of the army is an event that can not be regarded with indifference. —  The Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 (of 5) Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States
  • Paris felt absolute confidence in the army, in Joffre; and the Parisian reasoning was expressed in one phrase, "The army has retreated, but it is neither destroyed nor beaten; as long as the army is there, Paris has nothing to fear And when Sunday the thirtieth of August came, Paris was as calm and confident as it was on the first day of the war I shall remember the thirtieth of August for a long time They had posted on all the walls two notices. —  Fighting France
 

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  1. Middle English armee, from Old French, from Medieval Latin armāta, from Latin, feminine past participle of armāre, to arm, from arma, arms; see ar- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from arm, n., + -y.
  2. Early modern English also armie, from Middle English armye, armeye, armee, from Old French armee, modern F. armée = Spanish Portuguese armada = Italian armata, from Middle Latin armata, an armed force, army, properly feminine of Latin armatus, past participle of armare, arm, from arma, arms: see arm, and cf. armada, armata, doublets of army.
 

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