warrishとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

warrish (comparative more warrish, superlative most warrish)

1. Militant; warlike.
   • 1788, Peter Pindar, Brother Peter to brother Tom: An expostulatory epistle:

     Brightned the black horizon of his parish ; Gave to the Prince of Darkness such hard blows, That Satan was afraid to show his nose, (Except in hell), before this priest so warrish!

   • 1835, Peter Pindar, The works of Peter Pindar - Page 454:

     Dear George, 'tis very true," replied the king, " Poor Honour is just come upon the parish; Merit may tramp tho streets, and ballads sing: My new-made knights can boast of nothing warrish.

   • 1996, Patrick J. Howell, A Spiritguide: Through Times of Darkness - Page 88:

     The specific examples of warrish attitudes change from year to year, but the underlying bellicosity remains.

   • 2014, Mindy L. Klasky, The Glasswrights' Master:

     Some of the soldiers were little more than boys; they had spent their entire lives practicing their caste's warrish obligations, but they had never marched to battle for their king. Nevertheless, they understood the War Rites; […]

同意語

• warful