Definition of "marching regiment" []

• In England, a regiment liable to be ordered into other quarters, at home or abroad; a regiment of the line.

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• "To be a priest, under a "vow of obedience", was a very different thing to being one of his old saints travelling about from country to country, on errands of benevolence: as different as a soldier in a marching regiment is from being one of the seven champions."