dragoon

suomi-englanti sanakirja

dragoon englannista suomeksi

  1. alistaa, pakottaa

  2. rakuunarykmentti

  1. Substantiivi

  2. rakuuna

  3. karkea mies">karkea mies

  4. kyyhky">Dragoon -kyyhky

  5. Verbi

  6. antaa dragonnadeille">antaa dragonnadeille

  7. pakottaa

  8. usuttaa rakuunat">usuttaa rakuunat

dragoon englanniksi

  1. (senseid) (synonym of)

  2. (quote-book) Matthews|Augustine Matthewes|year=1622|section=decad 4|pages=137–138|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=C89lAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA138|oclc=1203319501|passage=A Lieutenant of a Troupe of compleat armed French Piſtoliers, is reputed better in degree then a Captaine of an hundred Foot, a Lieutenant of the late inuented ''Dragoones'' (being not aboue ſixteene inche Barrell, and full Muſquet bore) the Foot-Captaines equall, and the Lieutenant of a Troupe of ''Harquebuſsiers'' or ''Carbines'' his immediate younger brother.

  3. (senseid) Originally , a soldier armed with a dragoon musket ''((senseno))'' who fought both foot and mounted on a horse; now, a cavalier or soldier from a regiment formerly armed with such muskets.

  4. (quote-book) Matthews|Augustine Matthewes|year=1622|section=decad 3|page=83|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=C89lAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA83|oclc=1203319501|passage=The Lovv-countries haue produced another ſort of Horſe-men, vvhich their experience there haue found out to be of notable vſe, and they call them ''Dragoons'', vvhich I knovv not vvhether I may tearme them Foot-Horſe-men, or Horſe-Footmen: for they are Muſquetiers on horſebacke, and are imployed for the taking and maintaining, or at leaſt for preuenting the enemy from taking of Paſſages or Foords vvhich leade ouer Riuers: (..)

  5. (RQ:Herbert Travaile)

  6. (RQ:Evelyn Diary)

  7. (RQ:Tillotson Works)&93; vvith all his Eloquence, that Priſons and Tortures, Dragoons and the Galleys, are proper means to convince the Underſtanding, and either ''Chriſtian'' or ''Human'' methods of converting men to the true Religion.

  8. (RQ:Defoe Cavalier)

  9. (RQ:Macaulay History of England) A single troop of dragoons, which did not form part of any regiment, was stationed near Berwick, for the purpose of keeping the peace among the mosstroopers of the border. For this species of service the dragoon was then thought to be peculiarly qualified. He has since become a mere horse soldier. But in the seventeenth century he was accurately described by Montecuculi as a foot soldier, who used a horse only in order to arrive with more speed at the place where military service was to be performed.

  10. (RQ:Dickens Bleak House)

  11. (RQ:Gilbert and Sullivan Patience)

  12. (RQ:Chambers Younger Set)

  13. A man with a fierce or unrefined manner, like a dragoon ''((senseno))''.

  14. (RQ:Spectator) Fancy your wife or daughter, if you had any, in such circumstances, and what treatment you would then think due to such dragoons.

  15. (RQ:Emerson English Traits) These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and ferocious pirates.

  16. (senseid) A variety of pigeon, originally a cross between a horseman and a tumbler.

  17. (quote-text) One of the principal beauties of the Dragoon is the straightness of the top of its skull, and that of its beak, which ought almost to make a horizontal line with each other.

  18. (RQ:Mayhew London Labour)

  19. To subject (a Huguenot) to the (l) of France in 1681 to intimidate Protestant Huguenots to convert to Catholicism by billeting dragoons ''(noun (senseno))'' in their homes to abuse them and destroy or steal their possessions.

  20. (quote-book)|location=London|publisher=(...) Phillips (publisher)|Richard Phillips,(nb...) by (w),(nb...)|year=1803|volume=VI|page=401|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=BcQCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA401|oclc=1160074454|passage=She &91;(w)&93; appears to have exulted in the extirpation of protestantism in Provence, by the power of her son-in-law, count de Gregnan ''i.e.'', (w); she even speaks with levity of the sufferings of the huguenots, ''dragooned'' into the bosom of ''the true church''.

  21. (quote-journal)''. By Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux|Henry Lord Brougham. Knight and Co. review|journal=The Westminster Review|edition=American|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Leonard Scott & Co.,(nb...)|month=June|year=1845|volume=XLIII|issue=LXXXV|section=footnote *|page=191|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=IvBF-PgSAvcC&pg=PA191|column=1|oclc=507147293|passage=This was the pious lady &91;Ninon de l'Enclos|Ninon de l’Enclos&93; who, in after times, expiated the faults of her youth by dragooning Huguenots into Catholics.

  22. ''Chiefly followed by'' into: to force (someone) into doing something through harassment and intimidation; to coerce.

  23. (synonyms)

  24. (RQ:Prior Poems)

  25. (quote-book)|location=Philadelphia, Pa.|publisher=James Webster,(nb...); William Brown,(nb...)|year=1817|pages=78–79|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/sketchesoflifechara00wirt/page/79/mode/1up|oclc=761448|passage=The next step was that suggested by Mr. Townsend, of quartering large bodies of troops upon the chief towns in the colonies, and demanding of the several colonial legislatures, a provision for their comfortable support and accommodation. (..) Their object was perfectly understood: it was to curb the just and honourable spirit of the people; to dragoon them into submission to the parliamentary claim of taxation, and reduce them to the condition of vassals, governed by the right of conquest.

  26. (RQ:Hughes Tom Brown at Oxford)

  27. (quote-book)|volume=II (December 13, 1870 – February 27, 1874)|location=New York, N.Y.&59; London|publisher=G. P. Putnam's Sons|George Palmer Putnam’s Sons; The Knickerbocker Press|date=22 July 1872|year_published=1913|page=405|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/speechescorrespo02schu/page/405/mode/1up|oclc=|passage=For months and months and from one end of the country to the other the whole official force has been engaged in pulling wires to dragoon the party into the renomination of the President.|footer=(small)

  28. (quote-journal)

  29. To cause (someone) to be attacked by dragoons.

  30. (quote-journal) Richard Lambert,(nb...)|date=3 December 1881|volume=XXXIV|issue=5233|page=1|pageurl=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-pall-mall-gazette-dragoon/137606817/|column=1|oclc=221813931|passage=He Wilson says, for example, that he is opposed to locking men up without trial, but he refrains from pledging himself to releasing the suspects. He says nothing about the necessity for dragooning the Irish for abolishing trial by jury.