Word Meanings - WARFARE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Military service; military life; contest carried on by enemies; hostilities; war. The Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. I Sam. xxviii. 1. This day from battle rest; Faithful hath been your warfare.

Additional info about word: WARFARE

1. Military service; military life; contest carried on by enemies; hostilities; war. The Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. I Sam. xxviii. 1. This day from battle rest; Faithful hath been your warfare. Milton. 2. Contest; struggle. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal. 2 Cor. x. 4.

Related words: (words related to WARFARE)

• BATTLE
  Fertile. See Battel, a.
• CARRIBOO
  See CARIBOU
• CARRIABLE
  Capable of being carried.
• CONTESTABLE
  Capable of being contested; debatable.
• CARRIAGEABLE
  Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. Ruskin.
• FIGHTINGLY
  Pugnaciously.
• CONTESTATION
  1. The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute. "Loverlike contestation." Milton. After years spent in domestic, unsociable contestations, she found means to withdraw. Clarendon. 2. Proof by witness; attestation; testimony. A solemn
• ISRAELITIC; ISRAELITISH
  Of or pertaining to Israel, or to the Israelites; Jewish; Hebrew.
• FIGHT
  fechten, Sw. fäkta, Dan. fegte, and perh. to E. fist; cf. L. pugnare 1. To strive or contened for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in
• GATHERER
  An attachment for making gathers in the cloth. (more info) 1. One who gathers or collects.
• SERVICE
  The act of bringing to notice, either actually or constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law; as, the service of a subpoena or an attachment. (more info) 1. The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for
• FIGHTWITE
  A mulct or fine imposed on a person for making a fight or quarrel to the disturbance of the peace.
• CARRIAGE
  carriage, cart, baggage, F. charriage, cartage, wagoning, fr. OF. 1. That which is carried; burden; baggage. David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage. 1. Sam. xvii. 22. And after those days we took up our carriages and
• GATHERABLE
  Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises. Godwin.
• WARFARER
  One engaged in warfare; a military man; a soldier; a warrior.
• SERVICEABLE
  1. Doing service; promoting happiness, interest, advantage, or any good; useful to any end; adapted to any good end use; beneficial; advantageous. "Serviceable to religion and learning". Atterbury. "Serviceable tools." Macaulay. I know thee well,
• SERVICE; SERVICE
  A name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus Pyrus, as Pyrus domestica and P. torminalis of Europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the American shad bush (see Shad bush, under Shad). They have clusters of small,
• CARRION
  1. The dead and putrefying body or flesh of an animal; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food. They did eat the dead carrions. Spenser. 2. A contemptible or worthless person; -- a term of reproach. "Old feeble carrions." Shak.
• GATHER
  To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like. (more info) together, fr. gæd fellowship; akin to E. good, D. gaderen to collect, G. gatte husband,
• BATTLEDOOR
  A child's hornbook. Halliwell. (more info) origin; cf. Sp. batallador a great combatant, he who has fought many battles, Pg. batalhador, Pr. batalhador, warrior, soldier, fr. L. battalia; or cf. Pr. batedor batlet, fr. batre to beat, fr. L. 1.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
  A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.
• BOND SERVICE
  The condition of a bond servant; sevice without wages; slavery. Their children . . . upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bond service. 1 Kings ix. 21.
• TAXGATHERER
  One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.
• EMBATTLEMENT
  1. An intended parapet; a battlement. 2. The fortifying of a building or a wall by means of battlements.
• UPGATHER
  To gather up; to contract; to draw together. Himself he close upgathered more and more. Spenser.
• INCONTESTED
  Not contested. Addison.
• UNFAITHFUL
  1. Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows, allegiance, or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject; an unfaithful agent or servant. My feet, through wine, unfaithful to their weight. Pope. His
• FOOTFIGHT
  A conflict by persons on foot; -- distinguished from a fight on horseback. Sir P. Sidney.
• SCARRING
  A scar; a mark. We find upon the limestone rocks the scarrings of the ancient glacier which brought the bowlder here. Tyndall.
• RECARRIAGE
  Act of carrying back.
• UNSERVICE
  Neglect of duty; idleness; indolence. Massinger.
• ENBATTLED
  Embattled.