ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

Adj. pacific; peaceable, peaceful; calm, tranquil, untroubled, halcyon; bloodless; neutral.
dovish
Phr. the storm blown over; the lion lies down with the lamb; all quiet on the Potomac;
paritur pax bello [Lat.] [Nepos]; peace hath her victories no less renowned than war
[Milton]; they make a desert and they call it peace.
722. Warfare -- N. warfare; fighting &c v.; hostilities; war, arms, the sword; Mars,
Bellona, grim visaged war, horrida bella [Lat.]; bloodshed.
appeal to arms, appeal to the sword; ordeal of battle; wager of battle; ultima ratio
regum [Lat.], arbitrament of the sword.
battle array, campaign, crusade, expedition, operations; mobilization; state of siege;
battlefield, theater of operations &c (arena) 728; warpath.
art of war, tactics, strategy, castrametation † ; generalship; soldiership; logistics;
military evolutions, ballistics, gunnery; chivalry.
gunpowder, shot.
battle, tug of war &c (contention) 720; service, campaigning, active service, tented
field; kriegspiel [G.], Kriegsspiel [G.]; fire cross, trumpet, clarion, bugle, pibroch † ,
slogan; war-cry, war-whoop; battle cry, beat of drum, rappel, tom-tom; calumet of war;
word of command; password, watchword; passage d-armes [Fr.].
war to the death, war to the knife; guerre a mort [Fr.], guerre a outrance [Fr.]; open
war, internecine war, civil war.
V. arm; raise troops, mobilize troops; raise up in arms; take up the cudgels &c 720; take
up arms, fly to arms, appeal to arms, fly to the sword; draw the sword, unsheathe the
sword; dig up the hatchet, dig up the tomahawk; go to war, wage war, let slip the dogs of
war [Julius Caesar]; cry havoc; kindle the torch of war, light the torch of war; raise one's
banner, raise the fire cross; hoist the black flag; throw away, fling away the scabbard;
enroll, enlist; take the field; take the law into one's own hands; do battle, give battle, join
battle, engage in battle, go to battle; flesh one's sword; set to, fall to, engage, measure
swords with, draw the trigger, cross swords; come to blows, come to close quarters; fight;
combat; contend &c 720; battle with, break a lance with.
[pirates engage in battle] raise the jolly roger, run up the jolly roger.
serve; see service, be on service, be on active service; campaign; wield the sword,
shoulder a musket, smell powder, be under fire; spill blood, imbrue the hands in blood;
on the warpath.
carry on war, carry on hostilities; keep the field; fight the good fight; fight it out, fight
like devils, fight one's way, fight hand to hand; sell one's life dearly; pay the ferryman's
fee.
Adj. contending, contentious &c 720; armed, armed to the teeth, armed cap-a-pie; sword
in hand; in arms, under arms, up in arms; at war with; bristling with arms; in battle array,
in open arms, in the field; embattled; battled.
unpacific † , unpeaceful † ; belligerent, combative, armigerous † , bellicose, martial,
warlike; military, militant; soldier-like, soldierly.
chivalrous; strategical, internecine.
Adv. flagrante bello [Lat.], in the thick of the fray, in the cannon's mouth; at the sword's
point, at the point of the bayonet.
Int. vae victis! [Lat.], to arms!, to your tents O Israel!,