共發現 1 筆關於 [Dragooning] 的資料 (解釋內文之英文單字均可再點入查詢)

資料來源(1): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Dragoon \Dra*goon"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dragooned}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Dragooning}.]
     1. To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to
        persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.
  
     2. To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to
        persecute.
  
              The colonies may be influenced to anything, but they
              can be dragooned to nothing.          --Price.
  
              Lewis the Fourteenth is justly censured for trying
              to dragoon his subjects to heaven.    --Macaulay.