† expugnancen.
Obsolete. rare.
Storming (of a city), conquest.
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society > armed hostility > victory > [noun] > taking by storm
expugnation1524
expugning1586
expugnance1598
carriage1603
1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades iv. 67 Grant to me Th'expugnance of wel-builded Troy.
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n.1598- to send to the pack
- to send to the plantations
- to send to the pot
- to send to the press
- to send to the right about
- to send to the right rightabouts
- to send to the showers
- to send to the wall
- to send to, wish at hanover
- to send up
- to send up a kite
- to send upstairs
- to send word
- to sentence it
- to sentence to death
- to separate , sift, winnow) the corn from the chaff
- to separate , sift, winnow) the grain from the chaff
- to separate , sift, winnow) the wheat from the chaff
- to separate the men from the boys
- to servant it
- to serve a person heir to
- to serve a person right
- to serve a person's turn
- to serve a turn
- to serve a volunteer