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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An English publication (as title, Army List), issued periodically, containing a list of the officers in the army, the stations of regiments, etc. In the United States there is a similar list, called the Army Register.
- n. Figuratively, the officers whose names are recorded in the list.
Examples
“Why should the country reserve its gratitude for the genteel occupiers of the army-list, and forget the gallant fellows whose humble names were written in the regimental books?”
“If the same remark applies to the members of the army-list, as well as to those of the navy and law, we must say that it is an extremely shabby method of”
“No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.”
“Waverley, however, justly concluded that this good lady had the whole army-list by heart; and, to avoid detection, by adhering to truth, answered --- ` ` Gardiner's dragoons, ma'am; but I have retired some time. '”
“In 1752 his name was struck off the Prussian army-list.”
Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities
“No rentroll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.”
“No rentroll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation; and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.”
“No rent roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulations: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all forms of good-breeding point that way.”
“The thing went on admirably, till one day, some few months later, they saw, in a confounded army-list, that the late”
“He was formally disavowed by that prince, erased from his army-list, and severely reproached for his "_folly and ingratitude_," in letters from two members of the Russian cabinet; and on the 9th of April this fact was publicly notified in Yassy, the capital of Moldavia, by the Russian consul-general.”
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