Definitions for armistices

armistices ar·mi·stice

Spelling: [ahr-muh-stis]
IPA: /ˈɑr mə stɪs/

Armistices is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 816 anagrams from letters in armistices (aceiimrsst).

Definitions for armistices

noun

  1. a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement of the warring parties; truce:

Origin of armistices

1655-65; French Medieval Latin armistitium, equivalent to Latin armi- (combining form of arma arm2) + -stitium a stopping (stit- (variant stem of sistere to

Examples for armistices

No legal rule exists regarding the form of armistices, which may therefore be concluded either orally or in writing.

After the fall of Calais a succession of armistices or truces suspended hostilities for about six years.

That hostilities must cease is the obvious content of all kinds of armistices.

The principle vigilantibus jura sunt scripta applies to armistices as well as to all other legal transactions.

We can only during the night, when there are armistices, go forth with the lantern on the field of death to bury the dead.

If and so far as this has not been done, the import of armistices is for some parts much controverted.

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