单词 | assiege |
释义 | † assiegen. Obsolete. A siege. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > [noun] > a siege assiege1469 leaguer1601 setting-downa1616 obsess1694 wall-fight1850 1469 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 406 I haue herde..werse tydyngys syn the assege by-gan. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvii. 270 He..To the toune ane assege set. 1589 P. Ive Pract. Fortification 5 in tr. R. Beccarie de Pavie Instr. Warres The Winde and Seas alteration is such, that an Assige at Sea cannot be continued. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Oppugnatione..an assiege [not in ed. 1611]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online September 2021). † assiegev. Obsolete. To besiege, lay siege to, beleaguer, beset. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > besiege or blockade [verb (transitive)] belieOE besita1100 beset?c1225 assiege1297 besiege1297 belayc1320 umsiegea1325 ensiegec1380 environa1382 to set before1382 siege1390 forset?a1400 foldc1400 setc1400 to lay siege to, unto, about, against, beforec1449 oppugn?a1475 pursue1488 obsess1503 ferma1522 gird1548 begird1589 beleaguer1590 block1591 invest1591 intermure1606 blockade1684 to lay blockade to1713 leaguer1720 to form the siege1776 cerne1857 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 184 Kyng Arture and ys poer aseged hym wyþoute. c1386 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 23 And how asegid was Ypolita The faire hardy quyen of Cithea. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 158/3 They had assyeged Jherusalem. c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 8 And assaigit the castell of Wark. 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 160 She was assieged, and in danger to bee lost. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1469v.1297 |
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