单词 | rampired |
释义 | > as lemmasˈrampired ˈrampired adj. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [adjective] rampired1582 mounded1694 ramparted1795 rathed1861 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 8 With thick bulwarck shal he fence thee rampired Alba [L. et longam multa in muniet Albam]. a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) 98/1 Set but thy foot Against our rampyr'd gates, and they shall ope. View more context for this quotation 1776 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad vii. 311 Rampired walls lie smoaking on the ground. 1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country ii. 92 Grass..contemptible Compared with solid rock, the rampired ridge. 1900 W. H. Mallock Lucretius on Life & Death i. 2 Sweeter by far on Wisdom's rampired height To pace serene the porches of the light. 1927 P. Colum Creatures in Coll. Poems (1953) 172 They who made the rest Of Creatures, made them all-too manifold—Mortised and rampired, jointed, vascular. < as lemmas |
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