War —Defined
Most know war as the shoot'm up and bombing activity.
But... have you consider other types of war? Political wars?
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WAR. s. (1756)
1. The exercise of violence under sovereign command. 5. Hostility; state of oppression; act of oppresion. |
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WAR. n.s. (1785)
War may be defined the exercise of violence under sovereign command against withstanders; force, authority, and resistance, being the essential parts thereof. 5. Hostility; state of oppression; act of oppresion. When we review the era appropriate definitions for hostility, oppression, infringe, deny, disparage, abridge, we see similarity in the definitions.
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HOSTILE. adj. (1785)
Adverse; opposite; suitable to an enemy. HOSTILITY. n.s. (1785) The practices of an open enemy; open war; opposition in war. |
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To OPPRESS. v.a. (1785) 1. To crush by hardship or unreasonable severity. 2. To overpower; to subdue. OPPRESSION. n.s. (1785) 1. The act of oppressing; cruelty; severity. 2. The state of being oppressed; misery. 3. Hardship; calamity. 4. Dulness of spirit; lassitude of body. OPPRESSION. n.s. (1785) One who harasses others with unreasonable or unjust severity. |
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To INFRINGE. v.a. (1785)
1. To violate; to break laws or contracts. 2. To destroy; to hinder. INFRINGEMENT. n.s. (1785) Breach; violation. |
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To DENY. v.a. (1785)
1. To contradict; opposed to affirm. 3. To refuse; not to grant. 4. To abnegate; to disown. 5. To renounce; to disregard; to treat as foreign or not belonging to one. |
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To DISPARAGE. I v.a. (1785)
4. To treat with contempt; to mock; to flout; to reproach. 5. To being reproach upon; to be the cause of disgrace. |
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To ABRIDGE. v.a. (1785)
3. To deprive of; to cut off from. ABRIDGED of. part. (1785) Deprived of, debarred from, cut short. ABRIDGMENT. n.s. (1785) 2. A diminution in general. 3. Contraction; reduction. 4. Restraint from any thing pleasing; contraction of any thing enjoyed. |