单词 | poliorcetic |
释义 | poliorceticadj. Of or relating to the besieging of cities or fortresses. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > [adjective] obsidional?a1439 poliorcetic1744 obsessional1857 1744 Universal Hist. (Dublin rev. ed.) IV. 183 The enemy had certainly secured the passes; the poliorcetic art, in those simple days, consisted of little else. a1859 T. De Quincey Posthumous Wks. (1891) I. 98 The ‘arietes’, or battering-rams..were amongst the poliorcetic engines of the ancients. 1898 Athenæum 24 Sept. 423/2 The poliorcetic principles displayed at Château Gaillard. 1936 H. A. L. Fisher Hist. Europe i. xv. 187 To the marine skill of the Scandinavians they [sc. the Normans] added all that was then known of cavalry warfare and the poliorcetic art. 1995 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 115 47 I look also at..the poliorcetic writer Aeneas Tacitus, the philosophers Plato and Aristotle, and the poets Callimachus and even Lucretius. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1744 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。