armsbearing
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3ADJ.
capable, liable, turkish
VERB + ARMSBEARING
allowing, part
ARMSBEARING + NOUN
ancestor, fitz, massachusetts, population, robert, th
Definitions
noun
The act of bearing arms; the possession of weapons.
II. A MILITIA OF ALL MEN CAPABLE OF ARMSBEARING.
Could this be effected; could all the population of the Turkish empire, of armsbearing age, be enlisted in an army, organized, disciplined, and led like the armies of France and of England, it would indeed make the Porte formidable, not merely to the Greeks, but to the leading powers in Europe, who are now able to look, with stoical calmness, at the feeble and ineffectual blows aimed by Turkey at a people who stand on the frontier of Christendom.
adj
Engaged in bearing arms; armed.
In a war with a single tribe, near a tenth part of the armsbearing population of Massachusetts was killed, and one house in ten laid in ashes.
I shall proceed, however, to investigate, as far as possible, the several differences borne by the Nevilles upon the saltire of their first armsbearing ancestor, Robert fitz Maldred.
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6II. A MILITIA OF ALL MEN CAPABLE OF ARMSBEARING.
WiktionaryCould this be effected; could all the population of the Turkish empire, of armsbearing age, be enlisted in an army, organized, disciplined, and led like the armies of France and of England, it would i
WiktionaryWithin a few decades both the regular Dominicans and Franciscans, admittedly in response to more recent papal legislation as well as to these stipulations of the 1280s, were allowing armsbearing to th
WiktionaryIn a war with a single tribe, near a tenth part of the armsbearing population of Massachusetts was killed, and one house in ten laid in ashes.
WiktionaryI shall proceed, however, to investigate, as far as possible, the several differences borne by the Nevilles upon the saltire of their first armsbearing ancestor, Robert fitz Maldred.
WiktionaryWhen it is understood that in a single county in New Jersey, that of Essex, but two per cent. of the armsbearing population liable to military duty is enrolled in the National Guard, the objection, ap
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