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Armsbearing means The act of bearing arms; the possession of weapons..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The act of bearing arms; the possession of weapons..
II. A MILITIA OF ALL MEN CAPABLE OF ARMSBEARING.
Could this be effected; could all the population of the Turkish empire, of armsbearing age, be enlisted in an army, organized, disciplined, and led like the armies of France and of England, it would indeed make the Porte formidable, not merely to the Greeks, but to the leading powers in Europe, who are now able to look, with stoical calmness, at the feeble and ineffectual blows aimed by Turkey at a people who stand on the frontier of Christendom.
Within a few decades both the regular Dominicans and Franciscans, admittedly in response to more recent papal legislation as well as to these stipulations of the 1280s, were allowing armsbearing to their members under certain conditions;
As was made clear by the council of Coyanza, prohibitions on clerical armsbearing were developed in the context of the wider drive to reform the clergy of Europe in councils that were often presided over by the pope’s own representatives.
In a war with a single tribe, near a tenth part of the armsbearing population of Massachusetts was killed, and one house in ten laid in ashes.
I shall proceed, however, to investigate, as far as possible, the several differences borne by the Nevilles upon the saltire of their first armsbearing ancestor, Robert fitz Maldred.
When it is understood that in a single county in New Jersey, that of Essex, but two per cent. of the armsbearing population liable to military duty is enrolled in the National Guard, the objection, apart from every other consideration, to creating the whole or a considerable majority of any one class or race of citizen armsbearers carries no little weight.
The net result of both wars was the victory of an armsbearing equestrian gentry with a lifestyle radically different from that of the courtiers.
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Armsbearing means The act of bearing arms; the possession of weapons..
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II. A MILITIA OF ALL MEN CAPABLE OF ARMSBEARING.
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