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Definition of Go to war
1. Verb. Commence hostilities.
Definition of Go to war
1. Verb. (intransitive) To enter into an armed conflict with another nation ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Go To War
Literary usage of Go to war
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diplomatic Documents Relating to the Outbreak of the European War by James Brown Scott (1916)
"In conversation with the President of the Chamber to-day, I said that if it was
really Turkey's intention to go to war with Russia, I considered such a ..."
2. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"So that it' you wero persuaded by me to go to war, because you thought that I
possessed these qualities even in a ..."
3. The Parliamentary Debatesby Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1824)
"Why, rather than все Spain, under the military domination of France, he would go
to war. Rather than see Portugal exposed to be overrun by France, ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The primary title of a state to go to war is: first, the fact that the state's
rights (either directly or indirectly through those of its citizens) arc ..."
5. Thirty Years' View: Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1858)
"While they dwell on the peaceable disposition of Great Britain, they show her
ready to go to war with us for nothing, or even for our own ! ..."
6. Niles' Weekly Register edited by Hezekiah Niles, Jeremiah Hughes, George Beatty (1816)
"But should a nation go to war for an indignity without a sufficient object to be
attained by it? ... And would the house go to war, and sacrifice this ..."
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