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intestine war

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intestine war (plural intestine wars)

  1. (obsolete) A civil war.
    • c. 1800, “Biographical Memoir of Rear-Admiral John Willett Payne”, in The Naval Chronicle, volume 3:
      [] surrounded by an enemy rendered desperate from the calamities of intestine war.