Both Uses of
militia
in
Gulliver's Travels
- I have often seen the militia of Lorbrulgrud drawn out to exercise, in a great field near the city of twenty miles square.†
Chpt 2 *
- All which, however happily tempered by the laws of that kingdom, have been sometimes violated by each of the three parties, and have more than once occasioned civil wars; the last whereof was happily put an end to by this prince's grand-father, in a general composition; and the militia, then settled with common consent, has been ever since kept in the strictest duty.†
Chpt 2
Definition:
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(militia) civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army