2. Adjective. (military) (of a standing soldier) in a relaxed position with the feet apart rather than at attention ¹
3. Adjective. (military) Allowed to refrain from being in rigid formation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of At Ease
Literary usage of At ease
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1901)
"Feeling now comparatively at ease in his circumstances, he married, in September
1847, Emily Augusta Andrews (b. 29 Feb. ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"The poet Longfellow was such a thoroughbred gentleman, that the most timid were
at ease in his society, and the presumptuous were held in ..."
3. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward, Matthew Arnold (1918)
"... at ease You ask me, why, tho' ill at ease, Within this region I subsist, Whose
spirits falter in the mist, And languish for the purple seas. ..."
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