| 单词 | to form the siege |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto form the siege d. to form the siege (of a place) [French former un siège] : to commence active siege-operations (against it). 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 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xi. 218 The siege of that great city was immediately formed. 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. at Siege To form the Siege, or lay Siege to a place..there must be an army sufficient to furnish five or six reliefs for the trenches, pioneers, guards, convoys, escorts, &c. and artillery, with all the apparatus thereto belonging; magazines, etc. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xviii. 155 The whole army now drew near; the siege was formed. < as lemmas |
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