contravallationn.

/ˌkɒntrəvaˈleɪʃən/

Forms: Also 1600s contre-, counter- prefix.

Etymology: < French contrevallation, Italian contravvallazione, < Latin contra- + vallatiōn-em entrenchment ( < vallāre to surround with a rampart, to entrench): compare circumvallation n.

Military.

a. A chain of redoubts and breastworks, either unconnected or united by a parapet, constructed by besiegers between their camp and the town, as a defence against sorties of the garrison.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > [noun] > series of fortifications > line of contravallation

countervallation1677

contravallation1678

line of contravallation1678

1678 tr. L. de Gaya Art of War ii. 113 Circumvallation and Contravallation, is a Composition of Redoubts, little Forts, and Angles with Trenches, and Lines of Communication from one to another round a place that is beseiged.

1692 tr. C. de Saint-Évremond Misc. Ess. 144 And to Cæsar is owing our Fortifications, our Lines, our Contravallations.

1774 O. Goldsmith Grecian Hist. I. viii. 272 The following night the victors carried on their wall beyond the contravallation of the Athenians.

b. Usually, line of contravallation.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > [noun] > series of fortifications > line of contravallation

countervallation1677

contravallation1678

line of contravallation1678

1678 tr. L. de Gaya Art of War i. 54 The line of Contrevallation..which secures the Besiegers from Sallies.

1811 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) VII. 556 Unless they can be deprived..of their lines of contravallation before Cadiz, nothing can shake them in that part of the Peninsula.

1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 69 An army, forming a siege, lies between the lines of circumvallation and contravallation.

2. The construction of such lines.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > [noun] > series of fortifications > line of contravallation > construction of

counter-line1598

contravallation1725

1725 I. Watts Logick iv. ii. 528 The Rules of Circumvallation and Contravallation.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	contravallation
释义	contravallationn. /ˌkɒntrəvaˈleɪʃən/ Forms: Also 1600s contre-, counter- prefix. Etymology: < French contrevallation, Italian contravvallazione, < Latin contra- + vallatiōn-em entrenchment ( < vallāre to surround with a rampart, to entrench): compare circumvallation n. Military. 1. a. A chain of redoubts and breastworks, either unconnected or united by a parapet, constructed by besiegers between their camp and the town, as a defence against sorties of the garrison. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > [noun] > series of fortifications > line of contravallation countervallation1677 contravallation1678 line of contravallation1678 1678 tr. L. de Gaya Art of War ii. 113 Circumvallation and Contravallation, is a Composition of Redoubts, little Forts, and Angles with Trenches, and Lines of Communication from one to another round a place that is beseiged. 1692 tr. C. de Saint-Évremond Misc. Ess. 144 And to Cæsar is owing our Fortifications, our Lines, our Contravallations. 1774 O. Goldsmith Grecian Hist. I. viii. 272 The following night the victors carried on their wall beyond the contravallation of the Athenians. b. Usually, line of contravallation. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > [noun] > series of fortifications > line of contravallation countervallation1677 contravallation1678 line of contravallation1678 1678 tr. L. de Gaya Art of War i. 54 The line of Contrevallation..which secures the Besiegers from Sallies. 1811 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) VII. 556 Unless they can be deprived..of their lines of contravallation before Cadiz, nothing can shake them in that part of the Peninsula. 1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 69 An army, forming a siege, lies between the lines of circumvallation and contravallation. 2. The construction of such lines. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > [noun] > series of fortifications > line of contravallation > construction of counter-line1598 contravallation1725 1725 I. Watts Logick iv. ii. 528 The Rules of Circumvallation and Contravallation. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1678
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