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▪ I. assaulting, vbl. n.|əˈsɔːltɪŋ| [f. assault v. + -ing1.] Hostile onset, attack, assault.
1548[see prec.] 1561Hollybush Hom. Apoth. 44 b, When a man perceyueth the assaultinge of the ague. 1675Sheppard Grand Abridgm. s.v. Battery, Menacing beginneth the breach of the Peace, Assaulting, which every Battery doth imply, increaseth it, and Battery accomplisheth it. 1707Sir W. Hope New Meth. Fencing (1714) 232 Laws to be observed upon the Weekly Assaulting Days. ▪ II. aˈssaulting, ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ing2.] That assaults; attacking, assailing.
1567Drant Horace Epist. i. i. C j, To master thyne assaltynge fyttes. 1797Holcroft tr. Stolberg's Trav. II. ci. (ed. 2) 433 Defending himself against an assaulting lion. 1879in Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 139 The assaulting troops. |