#721. Peace. —
N. peace; amity &c. (friendship) 888; harmony &c.
(concord) 714; tranquility, calm &c. (quiescence)
265; truce, peace treaty, accord &c. (pacification)
723; peace pipe, pipe of peace, calumet of peace.
piping time of peace,
quiet life; neutrality.
[symbol of peace] dove
of peace, white dove.
[person who favors peace]
dove.
pax Romana[Lat]; Pax
Americana[Lat][obs3].
V. be at peace; keep
the peace &c. (concord) 714.
make peace &c. 723.
Adj. pacific; peaceable,
peaceful; calm, tranquil, untroubled,
halcyon; bloodless; neutral.
dovish
Phr. the storm blown
over; the lion lies down with the lamb; “all
quiet on the Potomac”; paritur pax bello [Lat][Nepos];
“peace hath her victories no less renowned than
war” [Milton]; “they make a desert and
they call it peace”.
— p. 238 —
#722. Warfare.
— N. warfare; fighting &c.v.; hostilities;
war, arms,
the sword; Mars, Bellona, grim visaged war, horrida
bella[Lat]; bloodshed.
appeal to arms, appeal
to the sword; ordeal of battle; wager of
battle; ultima ratio regum[Lat], arbitrament of the
sword.
battle array, campaign,
crusade, expedition, operations; mobilization;
state of siege; battlefield, theater of operations
&c. (arena) 728; warpath.
art of war, tactics,
strategy, castrametation[obs3]; generalship;
soldiership; logistics; military evolutions, ballistics,
gunnery; chivalry.
gunpowder, shot.
battle, tug of war &c.
(contention) 720; service, campaigning, active
service, tented field; kriegspiel[Ger], Kriegsspiel[Ger];
fire cross, trumpet, clarion, bugle, pibroch[obs3],
slogan; war-cry, war-whoop; battle cry, beat of drum,
rappel, tom-tom; calumet of war; word of command;
password, watchword; passage d-armes[Fr].
war to the death, war
to the knife; guerre a mort[Fr], guerre a
outrance[Fr][obs3]; open war, internecine war, civil
war.
V. arm; raise troops,
mobilize troops; raise up in arms; take up the
cudgels &c. 720; take up arms, fly to arms, appeal
to arms, fly to the sword; draw the sword, unsheathe
the sword; dig up the hatchet, dig up the tomahawk;
go to war, wage war, ‘let slip the dogs of war’
[Julius Caesar]; cry havoc; kindle the torch of war,
light the torch of war; raise one’s banner,
raise the fire cross; hoist the black flag; throw away,
fling away the scabbard; enroll, enlist; take the
field; take the law into one’s own hands; do
battle, give battle, join battle, engage in battle,
go to battle; flesh one’s sword; set to, fall
to, engage, measure swords with, draw the trigger,
cross swords; come to blows, come to close quarters;
fight; combat; contend &c. 720; battle with, break
a lance with.
[pirates engage in battle]
raise the jolly roger, run up the jolly
roger.
serve; see service,
be on service, be on active service; campaign;


