Normally, soldiers are quartered in barracks.
Passive voiceThis is a passive sentence. We can't tell from this sentence who peeled and quartered the apples.Compare with this active sentence - (we know who does the action):Jason peeled and quartered the applesThe apples were peeled and quartered (by Jason)In passive sentences the agent can be left out or put at the end of the sentence using by.
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They can never be quartered in citizen homes against the citizens wills.
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They can never be quartered in citizen homes against the citizens wills.
If you were late to work, your pay was quartered. No death involved, but it was a big deal if you came from a poor family!
48 AD was the very beginning of the Roman occupation of Britain. At that date the Roman settlement, called Lindum Colonium, was little more than a military fortress where Roman soldiers were quartered as part of the settlement of other, more important Roman settlements.
Hung, drawn and quartered means that first you get hung, but so at the end you're still alive, then they take out your insides and then they quarter you by tying your arms and legs to 4 horses which move and quarter you.
Correct me if I am wrong, as I know you will. I believe it means to have each extremity tied to a horse and pulled apart, in relation to hanged, drawn & quartered.
This is the quartered part of "drawn and quartered." The term "drawn and quartered" means pulled up and hung rather than dropped to break the neck, then each limb attached to a horse and the horses sent in each of the cardinal directions.