entrenchedadj.

1570 G. Fenton tr. J. de Serres Disc. Ciuile Warres Fraunce i. 29 They went to the village..where were lodged the Lordes of Mouuens & Pierregourde with their companies, from whence thei were also repulsed bicause they were somewhat entrenched [Fr. retranchez].

1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin iv. 202 To choake and cloase the wayes of the Alpes and the streytes of the contrey, with bastillions, gardes, and intrenched wayes, with other fortifications, both to cutte of all succours and supplies.

1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 274 An entrenched ground with three ditches.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 159 Being not fit to make good an entrenched campe, and much lesse fit to give upon a breach.

1640 G. Sandys tr. H. Grotius Christs Passion ii. 21 Intrenched Cities with high walls immur'd; But more by well-digested Lawes secur'd.

1760 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. iii. 40 Their Stativa, or stations; which were strong intrenched camps.

1858 W. Brock Sir H. Havelock xiii. 210 Advance was made in skirmishing order on the entrenched quadrangles.

1885 Cent. Mag. May 143/2 In our front was an intrenched line, apparently too strong for assault.

1930 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 31 Oct. 4/6 In 1341, the French watched their cavalry cut the entrenched British forces to pieces.

1942 W. Faulkner Go down, Moses & Other Stories 204 Ashby..leads a handful of troops he never saw before against an entrenched position of backwoods-trained riflemen.

1995 Legion Apr. 31/1 The Black Watch..fought a pitched battle using Projector, Infantry, Anti-Tank weapons (PIATs) and Brens against an entrenched enemy.

1642 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 57 He then..with more speedy remedies layes neerer siege to the entrenched causes of his distemper.

1810 Anonymous (London ed.) II. 275 The entrenched presumption of such literary persons as abuse the privileges of established reputation.

1898 Cosmopolitan July 343 The chains woven of ignorance and prejudice have, as a rule, been broken only by strong personalities, capable of overriding the beliefs of these strongly intrenched bureaus.

1939 Nation (N.Y.) 30 Sept. 336/2 Senator Borah..contemplates with democratic disgust the intrenched power of the British Empire.

1976 I. M. Lewis Social Anthropol. in Perspective (1985) viii. 282 An atmosphere in which entrenched inequalities are increasingly questioned.

2007 Independent 13 Mar. 29/2 Town halls and trades unions are screaming blue murder because they've been caught out in entrenched patriarchal attitudes.

1920 Jrnl. Compar. Legislation & Internat. Law 3rd Ser. 2 103 It [sc. the Act] contained an amendment to an entrenched clause in the Act of Union.

1931 Bull. Internat. News 8 4 The Statute was approved ‘on the understanding that the proposed legislation will in no way derogate from the entrenched provisions of the Act’.

1962 Listener 12 Apr. 626/2 A constitutionally entrenched Bill of Rights.

1993 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 5 Mar. 12 The monarchy is an entrenched provision of the 1982 Canadian Constitution.

2007 M. J. Perry Toward Theory of Human Rights viii. 89 It is precisely because it is so difficult to amend or repeal an entrenched law that entrenching certain human rights makes sense.

a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. D Invironed round with airy mountainetops, With wals of Flint, and deepe intrenched Lakes.

1598 F. Rous Thule ii. sig. R4^v Forth doe they goe to finde some resting place, Where they her deepe intrenched wound may dresse.

1709 Poet. Misc.: 6th Pt. 573 The useless Refuse took a cleansing Scour, Along the rapid Scheld's intrenched Shore.

1808 Universal Mag. Dec. 483/1 A few grey hairs scattered thinly about his temples shaded with venerable simplicity a deep entrenched scar.

1978 R. O. Paulson et al. Soil Surv. Blue Earth County, Minnesota 95/1 The soils along the deeply entrenched river valleys and ravines are generally calcareous at or near the surface.

2008 J. Laity Deserts & Desert Environments viii. 182/2 The walls of the entrenched channel gradually decrease in height downslope from the headcut.

1895 W. M. Davis Physical Geogr. S. New Eng. (National Geographic Monogr. I. No. 9) 287 In both these cases the considerable elevation of the upland gives the streams permission to intrench themselves profoundly.]

1896 W. M. Davis in National Geographic Mag. June 190 With the uplift of the region the meandering river would proceed to incise its channel beneath the uplifted surface, thus Ramsay accounted for its peculiar intrenched meanders many years ago.

1904 Bull. Amer. Geogr. Soc. 36 590 The course of a river normally developed to maturity on a flood-plain may, by virtue of relative uplift of the land, be cut down below its original level and flow in a narrow valley. In this case the river meanders are said to be entrenched or incised.

1954 W. D. Thornbury Princ. Geomorphol. vi. 145 Two types of incised or inclosed meanders are generally recognized: (1) entrenched or intrenched meanders.., and (2) ingrown meanders.

2010 S. E. Brown New York Waterfalls 116 The fall won't be visible until you come to a series of cliffs hanging over a deeply entrenched meander in Bay Brook.