Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To levy or raise troops; maintain a standing army.
- To fight as a soldier.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To carry on, or prepare for, war.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
wage , orprepare for,war .
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Examples
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We continue to militiate, and to raise light troops, and when we have armed every apprentice in England, I suppose we shall translate our fears to Germany.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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