regarrisonv.
/ˌriːˈɡarᵻs(ə)n/, U.S. /riˈɡɛrəs(ə)n/ Now chiefly historical.
transitive. To furnish with a garrison again; to station troops in (a fortress, town, etc.) again, for defensive purposes. Cf. garrison v. 1a.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defend [verb (transitive)] > garrison > regarrison
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1657 W. Prynne Pendennis & All Other Standing Forts Dismantled 3 The Island and places near them, might be endangered, if slighted, & their ruins supprised regarrison'd by an enemy.
1801 J. Vint Conc. Syst. Mod. Geogr. II. 105 The Dutch embraced the opportunity of clandestinely taking possession, and regarrisoning the fort.
1870 J. W. Draper Hist. Amer. Civil War III. lxxx. 311 Hereupon he withdrew to Athens, which had been regarrisoned.
1926 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 13 201 The place was never afterwards regarrisoned.
1982 M. Z. Bradley Mists of Avalon i. iii. 36 Perhaps Caesar had the right idea, then; perhaps we should regarrison the wall.
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ˌreˈgarrisoning n.
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1849 N. C. Brooks Compl. Hist. Mexican War xxvii. 459 The regarrisoning of [Jalapa]..with twelve hundred men.
1999 Winterthur Portfolio 34 233/2 Perhaps the strongest indication that the army sought to replicate eastern culture at the forts was the post commander's attention to the planting of trees beginning in the post-Civil War regarrisoning of western posts.
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