warfare

Roget category 722

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.4. Antagonism
›› 5.4.2. Active antagonism

#722. Warfare

noun

warfare — fighting etc. v. — hostilities — war, arms, the sword — Mars, Bellona, grim visaged war, horrida bella [Lat.] — bloodshed.
appeal to arms, appeal to the sword — ordeal of battle — wager of battle — ultima ratio regum [Lat.], arbitrament of the sword.
battle array, campaign, crusade, expedition, operations — mobilization — state of siege — battlefield, theater of operations etc. (arena) 728 — warpath.
art of war, tactics, strategy, castrametation^† — generalship — soldiership — logistics — military evolutions, ballistics, gunnery — chivalry.
gunpowder, shot.
battle, tug of war etc. (contention) 720 — service, campaigning, active service, tented field — kriegspiel [G.], Kriegsspiel [G.] — fire cross, trumpet, clarion, bugle, pibroch^†, slogan — war-cry, war-whoop — battle cry, beat of drum, rappel, tom-tom — calumet of war — word of command — password, watchword — passage d-armes [Fr.].
war to the death, war to the knife — guerre a mort [Fr.], guerre a outrance [Fr.] — open war, internecine war, civil war.

verb

arm — raise troops, mobilize troops — raise up in arms — take up the cudgels etc. 720 — take up arms, fly to arms, appeal to arms, fly to the sword — draw the sword, unsheathe the sword — dig up the hatchet, dig up the tomahawk — go to war, wage war, let slip the dogs of war" [Julius Caesar]; cry havoc — kindle the torch of war, light the torch of war — raise one's banner, raise the fire cross — hoist the black flag — throw away, fling away the scabbard — enroll, enlist — take the field — take the law into one's own hands — do battle, give battle, join battle, engage in battle, go to battle — flesh one's sword — set to, fall to, engage, measure swords with, draw the trigger, cross swords — come to blows, come to close quarters — fight — combat — contend etc. 720 — battle with, break a lance with.
[pirates engage in battle] raise the jolly roger, run up the jolly roger.
serve — see service, be on service, be on active service — campaign — wield the sword, shoulder a musket, smell powder, be under fire — spill blood, imbrue the hands in blood — on the warpath.
carry on war, carry on hostilities — keep the field — fight the good fight — fight it out, fight like devils, fight one's way, fight hand to hand — sell one's life dearly — pay the ferryman's fee.

adjective

contending, contentious etc. 720 — armed, armed to the teeth, armed cap-a-pie — sword in hand — in arms, under arms, up in arms — at war with — bristling with arms — in battle array, in open arms, in the field — embattled — battled.
unpacific^†, unpeaceful^† — belligerent, combative, armigerous^†, bellicose, martial, warlike — military, militant — soldier-like, soldierly.
chivalrous — strategical, internecine.

adverb

flagrante bello [Lat.], in the thick of the fray, in the cannon's mouth — at the sword's point, at the point of the bayonet.

interjection

vae victis! [Lat.], to arms!, to your tents O Israel!,

phrase

the battle rages — a la guerre comme a la guerre [Fr.] — bis peccare in bello non licet [Lat.] — jus gladii [Lat.] — my voice is still for war" [Addison]; 'tis well that war is so terrible, otherwise we 'tis well that war is so terrible, otherwise we might grow fond of it" [Robert E. Lee]; my sentence is for open war" [Milton]; pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war" [Othello]; the cannons have their bowels full of wrath" [King John]; the cannons aspit forth their iron indignation" [King John]; the fire-eyed maid of smoky war" [Henry IV]; silent leges inter arma [Lat.] [Cicero]; si vis pacem para bellum [Lat.].

The content on this page comes straight from Project Gutenberg Etext of Roget's Thesaurus No. Two, which consists of the acclaimed work by Peter Mark Roget augmented with more recent material. Some changes were made to the formatting for improved readability.

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