English-Thai Dictionary

reprisal

N การแก้แค้น  การ แก้เผ็ด  การ ล้างแค้น  revenge vengeance kan-kea-kan

 

reprisal

N การโต้ตอบ ด้วย กำลัง ทหาร  retaliation kan-to-tob-duai-kam-lang-ta-han

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

REPRISAL

n.s as z. [L. prendo.] 1. The seizure or taking of any thing from an enemy by way of retaliation or indemnification for something taken or detained by him.
2. That which is taken from an enemy to indemnify an owner for something of his which the enemy has seized. Reprisals may consist of persons or of goods. Letters of marque and reprisal may be obtained in order to seize the bodies or goods of the subjects of an offending state, until satisfaction shall be made.
3. Recaption; a retaking of a man's own goods or any of his family, wife, child or servant, wrongfully taken from him or detained by another. In this case, the owner may retake the goods or persons wherever he finds them.
Letters of marque and reprisal, a commission granted by the supreme authority of a state to a subject, empowering him to pass the frontiers [marque, ] that is, enter an enemy's territories and capture the goods and persons of the enemy, in return for goods or persons taken by him.
4. The act of retorting on an enemy by inflicting suffering or death on a prisoner taken from him, in retaliation of an act of inhumanity.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

REPRISAL

Re *pris "al (r-priz "al ), n. Etym: [F. repr, It. ripresaglia,rappresaglia, LL. reprensaliae, fr. L. reprehendere, reprehensum. See Reprehend, Reprise. ]

 

1. The act of taking from an enemy by way of reteliation or indemnity. Debatable ground, on which incursions and reprisals continued to take place. Macaulay.

 

2. Anything taken from an enemy in retaliation.

 

3. The act of retorting on an enemy by inflicting suffering or death on a prisoner taken from him, in retaliation for an act of inhumanity. Vattel (Trans. )

 

4. Any act of retaliation. Waterland. Letters of marque and reprisal. See under Marque.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

reprisal

re pris al |riˈprīzəl rəˈpraɪzəl | ▶noun an act of retaliation: three youths died in the reprisals that followed | the threat of reprisal. • historical the forcible seizure of a foreign subject or their goods as an act of retaliation. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French reprisaille, from medieval Latin reprisalia (neuter plural ), based on Latin repraehens- ‘seized, ’ from the verb reprehendere (see reprehend ). The current sense dates from the early 18th cent.

 

Oxford Dictionary

reprisal

re |prisal |rɪˈprʌɪz (ə )l | ▶noun an act of retaliation: three youths died in the reprisals which followed | [ mass noun ] : the threat of reprisal. • [ mass noun ] historical the forcible seizure of a foreign subject or their goods as an act of retaliation. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French reprisaille, from medieval Latin reprisalia (neuter plural ), based on Latin repraehens- ‘seized ’, from the verb repraehendere (see reprehend ). The current sense dates from the early 18th cent.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

reprisal

reprisal noun following the violence, the fear is of reprisal: retaliation, counterattack, comeback; revenge, vengeance, retribution, requital; informal a taste of one's own medicine.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

reprisal

reprisal noun he declined to be named for fear of reprisal: retaliation, counterattack, counterstroke, comeback; revenge, vengeance, retribution, requital, recrimination, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, tit for tat, getting even, redress, repayment, payback; Latin lex talionis; informal a taste of one's own medicine; rare ultion, a Roland for an Oliver.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

reprisal

re pris al /rɪpráɪz (ə )l /名詞 1 ｟かたく ｠U C 報復 (行為 ), 仕返し ▸ in reprisal for A Aの報復として ▸ take [carry out ] reprisals 報復する, 報復手段をとる .2 C 〖しばしば ～s 〗(国家間の )報復行為 ; 賠償 (金 [物 ]).