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Definition of Bearer of the sword
1. Noun. A small gang of terrorist thugs claiming to seek a separate Islamic state for the Muslim minority in the Philippines; uses bombing and assassination and extortion and kidnapping. "In 2001 Abu Sayyaf kidnapped twenty people and beheaded one of the American captives"
Category relationships: Act Of Terrorism, Terrorism, Terrorist Act
Generic synonyms: Foreign Terrorist Organization, Fto, Terrorist Group, Terrorist Organization
Geographical relationships: Philippines, Republic Of The Philippines
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bearer Of The Sword
Literary usage of Bearer of the sword
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Cumberland by Richard Saul Ferguson (1890)
"... bearer of the sword of us our heirs and successors, as the aforesaid
sergeants-at-mace in the same city to be appointed shall carry and bear maces of ..."
2. Memoir of Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby by Charles Henry Cooper (1874)
"Fisher, directing him, the master of the rolls and Sir Thomas Boleyn, to meet
the pope's ambassador, the bearer of the sword and cap of maintenance for ..."
3. A History of Municipal Government in Liverpool: From the Earliest Times to by Ramsay Muir, Edith May Platt (1906)
"... to time of electing and nominating, and that they may and can elect and nominate
one honest man within the aforesaid town to be the bearer of the sword, ..."
4. Transactions by East Riding Antiquarian Society, British Mycological Society (1895)
"... bought by him for the bearer of the sword before the mayor, by assent of the
Council, 6s. 8d.§ 1450-1451. And paid in money paid to the common clerk, ..."
5. Communism in Central Europe in the Time of the Reformation by Karl Kautsky (1897)
"... whom, before the assembled multitude, he dubbed the 'bearer of the Sword' ;
for as all the high were to be laid low, and Knipperdollinck had hitherto ..."
6. The Official Baronage of England: Showing the Succession, Dignities, and by James William Edmund Doyle (1886)
"17, 1547 ; Bearer of the Sword ... 17, 1553 ; Lord High Steward of England, for
Coren, of Queen Mary, Oct. i, 1553 ; Bearer of the Sword ..."
7. Report by United States Christian Commission Committee of Maryland (1864)
"It were well that the bearer of religious counsels and consolations should be
represented on the canvass that exhibits the bearer of the sword. ..."
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