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deˈcampment, n. [a. F. décampement (16th c.), f. décamper: see prec. and -ment.] The action of decamping; the raising of a camp; a prompt departure.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Decampment, a Decamping, or Marching off. 1733Millner Compend. Jrnl. 300 Both Armies march'd from their several Decampments Rightward. 1736Eliza Stanley tr. Hist. Pr. Titi 122 Having by some few Decampments..drawn Ginguet's Army into a spacious Plain. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) IV. xc. 86 In consequence of this decampment, the borrower had withdrawn himself. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. (1861) 259 The vigilant Peter, perceiving that a moment's delay were fatal, made a secret and precipitate decampment. |