reassailv.
/ˌriːəˈseɪl/, U.S. /ˌriəˈseɪl/ transitive. To assail (a person or thing) again.
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1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) xiiii. 30 She reassayled hym to fore them alle in suche wyse, that he said yet more fowle and shameful wordes to the dishonoure of hyr.
1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin ii. 86 The king complayned..that he did not eftsoones reassayle with a new supply [of vessels] the rocke of Yschia.
1665 J. Glanvill Sciri Tuum: Authors Defense 75 in Scepsis Scientifica And possibly could with an humor brisk enough have reassailed the spirit of proud and unreasonable presumption.
1851 C. L. Smith tr. T. Tasso Jerusalem Delivered iii. xxxi Then showed her front and re-assailed the foe.
1853 E. FitzGerald tr. P. Calderón de la Barca Such Stuff as Dreams are made Of iii. i. 124 Not to dream Only what dreamt shall once or twice again Return..But reassailing one so quick, so thick..so palpably repeated..We know not which is which.
1939 Amer. Lit. 11 104 In these days when his cause, that of humanitarian democracy, has been so fiercely reassailed.
1949 Huntington Libr. Q. 12 268 Piling new censure on old vituperations, Mrs. Manley reassails the Marlboroughs and Godolphin in her history of ‘Constantinople’.
1983 D. N. Walton Ethics Withdrawal Life-support Syst. (1987) iv. 103 (heading) Persistent vegetative states reassailed.
2007 Milton Stud. 46 125 Milton has appeared not to respond to this failure, other than perhaps reassailing the king's image..in his Defenses.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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