serried: [17] The phrase serried ranks is first recorded in William Wilkie’s Epigoniad 1757, but it was clearly inspired by Milton’s ‘Nor serv’d it to relax their serried files’ in Paradise Lost 1667. It means ‘rows crowded close together’, and serried is the past participle of a now obsolete verb serry ‘press together’. This was borrowed from serré, the past participle of Old French serrer ‘close’, which went back via Vulgar Latin *serrāre to Latin sērāre, a derivative of the noun sera ‘lock, bolt’.
serried (adj.)
"pressed close together," 1667 (in "Paradise Lost"), probably a past participle adjective from serry "to press close together" (1580s), a military term, from Middle French serre "close, compact" (12c.), past participle of serrer "press close, fasten," from Vulgar Latin *serrare "to bolt, lock up," from Latin serare, from sera "a bolt, bar, cross-bar," perhaps from PIE *ser- (3) "to line up" (see series). Modern use is due to the popularity of Scott, who used it with phalanx.
例文
1. serried ranks of soldiers
密集して並ぶ兵士
2.The fields were mostly patches laid on the serried landscape，between crevices and small streams.
農地の大部分は地縫と小川の間の条状の小さな塊である。
3.Above the bush the trees stood in serried ranks.
イバラの上にはびっしりと木がそびえている。
4.As the closely serried leaves bent,a tide of opaque emerald could be glimpsed.
この時も葉と花は少し震えていて、稲妻のように、一瞬にして蓮池の向こうを伝わった。
5.He could not as yet with the magnates the East the serried Sequoias of Wall Street.