| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb dragoon.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (dragoon) | 1. Compel by coercion, threats, or crude means.[Wordnet]. 2. Subjugate by imposing troops.[Wordnet]. 3. To harass or reduce to subjection by dragoons; to persecute by abandoning a place to the rage of soldiers.[Websters]. 4. To compel submission by violent measures; to harass; to persecute.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: dragooning, dragooned, dragoons, dragooner, dragooners, dragooningly and dragoonedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "DRAGOONING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1715. (references) |
Specialty Definition: DRAGOONING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Abandoning to the rage of soldiers; persecuting; harassing; vexing.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of dragoon. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: dragoon
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| 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards | 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards (QDG) is an armoured cavalry regiment of the British Army formed in 1959 by the amalgamation of 1st King's Dragoon Guards and the Queen's Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards), both of which were raised in 1785 by James II of England in reaction to the Monmouth Rebellion. (references) | ||
| 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards) | The 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army. (references) | ||
| 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards | The IV Princess Louise Dragoon Guards were formed at Ottawa by amalgamation of 4th Hussars of Canada and The Princess Louise Dragoon Guards in 1936. In 1941 they became an armoured regiment. During this period they were known as the 4th Reconnaissance Battalion (4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards). They returned to infantry status in 1944 and regained their old name. They were disbanded in 1965. (references) | ||
| Dragoon guards | Dragoon guards was, in some armies, particularly the British Army, the designation used to refer to heavy cavalry regiments from the 18th century onwards. Dragoon guards usually wore cuirasses and helmets and carried heavy sabres, and were similar to cuirassiers in other armies. (references) | ||
| Magma Dragoon | Magma Dragoon, in the PlayStation, Sega Saturn and PC game Mega Man X4 is a member of the Maverick Hunters, as the leader of the 14th Maverick Hunter Unit. First met during the beginning of Mega Man X4, Dragoon was supposedly at the end of the hovering city, too late at stopping a Maverick from destroying a vital power core that kept the city afloat. After the events of Sky Lagoon, be betrayed the Maverick Hunters and hid in the Volcano Region (proving that his appearance in the power core was no coincidence, that he destroyed the core), where he met his end at the hands of X or Zero. He has been the only Maverick to speak to your character right before death. In this last dialogue, Dragoon speaks of a mysterious person (Sigma) that said becoming a Maverick would allow him to fight and "defeat" X or Zero, quickly engulfed in explosions as he was no more. (references) | ||
| Operation Dragoon | Operation Dragoon was the Allied invasion of southern France, on 15 August, 1944, as part of World War II. The invasion took place between Toulon and Cannes. During the planning stages, the operation was known as Anvil, to compliment Operation Hammer, which was at that time the codename for the invasion of Normandy. Subsequently both plans were renamed, the latter becoming Operation Overlord, the former becoming Operation Dragoon; a name supposedly picked by Winston Churchill, who was opposed to the plan, and claimed to having been "dragooned" into accepting it. (references) | ||
| Panzer Dragoon Orta | Panzer Dragoon Orta is an Xbox video game developed by Smilebit. It is the sequel to the Panzer Dragoon games for the Sega Saturn, the fourth game in the series. (references) | ||
| Prussian Dragoon Regiment Number 5 Bayreuth Dragoons | The Dragoner-Regiment Nr.5 Bayreuth Dragoner was a Prussian dragoon regiment. Formed in 1717, the regiment was a part of the Prussian order of battle until 1918. The Bayreuth Dragoons achieved fame for their role in winning the Battle of Hohenfriedberg in 1745. (references) | ||
| Royal Dragoon Guards | The Royal Dragoon Guards is an armoured regiment of the British Army. (references) | ||
| Royal Scots Dragoon Guards | The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys), (SCOTS DG) [see below], is Scotland's senior regiment and its only cavalry regiment. It was formed on 2 July 1971 at Holyrood, Edinburgh from the amalgamation of the 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards) (themselves the product of the amalgamation in 1922 of 3rd Dragoon Guards (Prince of Wales's) and 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)), and The Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons). (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: DRAGOONING
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Dragooning it | Slang in 1811 | DRAGOONING IT. A man who occupies two branches of one profession, is said to dragoon it; because, like the soldier of that denomination, he serves in a double capacity. Such is a physician who furnishes the medicines, and compounds his own prescriptions. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
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