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Definition of Take the field
1. Verb. Go on a campaign; go off to war.
2. Verb. Go on the playing field, of a football team.
Definition of Take the field
1. Verb. (idiomatic) to go out onto the playing field ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Take The Field
Literary usage of Take the field
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"The martial impatience of Julian urged him to take the field in the beginning of
the spring, and he dismissed, with contempt and reproach, the senate of ..."
2. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians by Charles Rollin (1869)
"LICINIUS AND PERSEUS take the field. THE LATTER HAS AT FIRST CONSIDERABLY THE
ADVANTAGE. ... take the Field ..."
3. The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution by David Hume, Tobias George Smollett (1825)
"Parliament dissolved—§ XIX; The French and allies take the field in Flanders—§ XX.
Prince of Orange elected stadtholder, captain-general, and admiral of the ..."
4. History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1656 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1903)
"quick-witted Irish woman might succeed in baffling the investigations of God-fearing
veterans.1 Early in May Ireton was prepared to take the field with ..."
5. The Documentary History of the State of New-York: Arranged Under Direction by New York (State). Secretary's Office (1851)
"... of the enemy up the River has prevented their meeting for the present and
obliged me to take the field with the Militia to oppose the Common Enemy. ..."
6. History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1656 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1903)
"... of God-fearing veterans.1 pares to but he himself—unlike most other mediocre
com- take the . field. manders—having learnt to distrust his own powers, ..."
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