Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
- noun Figuratively, the officers whose names are recorded in the list.
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Examples
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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?
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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
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841 Various
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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.
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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. ''
The Waverley 1877
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In 1752 his name was struck off the Prussian army-list.
Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities 1861
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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.
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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.
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842
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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.
Essays — Second Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842
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The thing went on admirably, till one day, some few months later, they saw, in a confounded army-list, that the late
Charles O'Malley — Volume 1 Charles James Lever 1839
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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?
Little Travels and Roadside Sketches William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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