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▪ I. invade, v.|ɪnˈveɪd|
Also 6–7 en-.
[ad. L. invādĕre, f. in- (in-2) + vādĕre to go, walk.]
1. trans. To enter in a hostile manner, or with armed force; to make an inroad or hostile incursion into.
1494Fabyan Chron. iv. lxi. 41 The Pictes and other Enemyes, which dayly inuaded the Lande. 1534More Comf. agst. Trib. iii. Wks. 1236/2 God shall not suffer the Turkes to enuade this lande. 1543Grafton Contn. Harding 603 The kyng of Scottes..inuad Englande with an hoste of an hundred thousande menne. 1630Wadsworth Pilgr. viii. 80 When the Spaniards saw the King of France to enuade the Valtoline. 1728Newton Chronol. Amended 36 Asserhadon invades Babylon. 1847Emerson Poems, Blight, We invade them impiously for gain; We devastate them unreligiously. 1858Froude Hist. Eng. III. xii. 32 For a subject to invite a foreign power to invade his country is the darkest form of treason.
2. transf. and fig. To enter or penetrate after the manner of an invader.
a. Of a physical agent.
1605Shakes. Lear i. i. 146 Let it fall rather, though the forke inuade The region of my heart. Ibid. iii. iv. 7 This contentious storme Inuades vs to the skin. 1671R. Bohun Wind 218 An Island; which being invaded on all sides by the Sea-vapors and Winds, seldome enjoys [etc.]. 1753Smollett Ct. Fathom (1784) 53/1 Ferdinand..was actually invaded to the skin, before he could recollect himself so far as to quit the road. 1804W. Tennant Ind. Recreat. (ed. 2) II. 381 The deer invade the crops in such numbers. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xviii. 123 The blue firmament..was more and more invaded by clouds.
b. Of sounds, diseases, feelings, etc.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VII 3 b, A deadly and burnyng sweate invaded their bodyes. 1602Marston Ant. & Mel. iv. Wks. 1856 I. 54 A sodden horror doth invade my blood. 1673Lady's Call. i. ii. §17 The tongue..in its loudest clamors can naturally invade nothing but the ear. 1738Johnson Van. Hum. Wishes 151 Should no disease thy torpid veins invade. 1865M. Arnold Ess. Crit. iv. (1875) 173 A sense of loss, of loneliness invades her.
3. intr. or absol. To make an invasion or attack. Const. on (upon, into), and with indirect pass.
1491Act 7 Hen. VII, c. 11 §1 Ye verily intendyng..to invade upon your and our auncien ennemyes with an Armee roiall. 1534Whitinton Tullyes Offices ii. (1540) 107 Of late this mischefe inuaded in to this commenwelthe of Rome. 1598R. Grenewey Tacitus, Ann. i. ix. (1622) 16 Germanicus feared so much the more, because he knew the enemy would not faile to inuade, as soone as he vnderstood..that the riuers side was vndefended. 1733Pope Ess. Man iii. 298 Made To serve, not suffer, strengthen, not invade. 1814Spaniards v. iii, 'T is for our monarch's realm, invaded on.
4. trans. To intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate (property, rights, liberties, etc.).
1514Barclay Cyt. & Uplondyshm. (Percy Soc.) p. lxv, Why doest thou invade my part and portion? 1647Cowley Mistr., Spring v, You did their Natural Rights invade. 1648Eikon Bas. iv. 20 Those Tumults..spared not to invade the Honour and Freedom of the two Houses. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. xvii. 255 Whenever..the crown hath been induced to invade the private rights of any of it's subjects. 1835I. Taylor Spir. Despot. v. 218 That liberty of private judgment which cannot be invaded without crushing the human mind. 1852Conybeare & H. St. Paul (1862) I. ii. 54 The jurisdiction of the Sanhedrin was invaded by the most arbitrary interference.
†b. To usurp, seize upon, take possession of.
1617Moryson Itin. i. 93 At this day the family of Este being extinct, the Bishop of Rome hath invaded this Dukedome. 1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. iii. (1636) 13 Having murthered his Soveraigne Lord Constance, invaded his Crowne. 1712Berkeley Pass. Obed. Wks. III. 137 By virtue of the duty of non-resistance we are not obliged to submit the disposal of our lives and fortunes to the discretion either of madmen, or of all those who by craft or violence invade the supreme power.
†5. To make an attack upon (a person, etc.); to set upon or asssault. lit. and fig. Obs.
1513Douglas æneis ix. x. 2 Ascanyus..That wont was wyth his schot bot to invaid The wild bestis. 1526Tindale Acts xviii. 10 Noo man shall invade the that shall hurt the. c1540tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden) I. 53 The Brittons..of a sodaine invaded the seventhe parte of the legion which was sente for the purveyance of corne. 1553Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 16 When this beast attempteth to inuade the Elephant. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 15 Thay dreid to prouock grettar troubillis..give thay wold invaid so gret ane man. 1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. lxvii. (1739) 169 No Free-man shall be..outlawed, or banished, or invaded, but by the Law of the Land, and Judgement of his Peers. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 643 Audacious Youth, what Madness cou'd provoke A Mortal Man t'invade a sleeping God? 1753Scots Mag. Sept. 469/2 James Miln..was indicted for invading and wounding, on the high-way, William Bennet.
†6. (Latinisms):
a. To enter. lit. and fig.
b. To go, traverse, or accomplish (a distance).
c. To rush or enter hurriedly into (a struggle, etc.).
1590Spenser F.Q. ii. x. 6 The venturous Mariner..Gan more the same frequent, and further to invade. Ibid. iii. vi. 37 Matter..Which, whenas forme and feature it does ketch, Becomes a body, and doth then invade The state of life out of the griesly shade. 1598R. Grenewey Tacitus, Ann. xi. iii. (1622) 143 Bardanes, who being a man of action and able to go thorow great enterprises, in two daies inuaded three thousand Stadia, and chased out Gotarzes..not one dreaming of his comming. 1700Dryden Pal. & Arc. iii. 519 Nor (captives made) Be freed, or arm'd anew the fight invade.
Hence inˈvaded ppl. a.; inˈvading vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1598Florio, Inuaso, inuaded or assailed. 1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 173 By invading of their neighboures, procured unto themselves..most spacious kingdomes. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 224 A defensive Warre..against the insatiate and invading Spaniard. 1720Welton Suffer. Son of God II. xxix. 750 To whom Leprosie itself, and all other Invading Sicknesses..submit themselves. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. i. i, You gathering in on her..with your..invadings and truculent bullyings. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiii. III. 333 Food for an invading army was not to be found in the wilderness of heath and shingle.
▪ II. † inˈvade, n. Obs. rare—1.
[f. prec. vb.]
The act of invading; invasion.
1591Troub. Raigne K. John ii. (1611) 107 Only the heart impugnes with faint resist The fierce inuade of him that conquers Kings. |