[f. prec. sb.]
1. intr. To serve in, or go on, a campaign. Also fig. and transf.
1701. [see CAMPAIGNING].
1766. G. Canning, Anti-Lucretius, V. 401.
| By them unaided, every effort’s vain— | |
| Without an host what General could campaign? |
1801. Sir R. Musgrave, Hist. Irish Reb., Pref. p. v. (T.). The officers who campaigned in the late rebellion.
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), III. 280. He [Homer] … feeds his heroes, when they are campaigning, on soldiers’ fare.
1885. Pall Mall Gaz., 20 Feb., 2/2. You will campaign in the Soudan.
2. trans. (nonce-use.)
1768. Sterne, Sent. Journ. (1778), I. 114. An old soldier … campaign’d and worn out to death in the service.
