| 单词 | to lay siege to, unto, about, against, before |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto lay siege to, †unto, †about, †against, †before 19. to lay siege to, †unto, †about, †against, †before: to besiege; also figurative to attack. †Also to lay battery, blockade to. 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 c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 258 King Herri leieth a sege to Harflew. c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) l. 2071 The sege he did leyen a-bowte On every side of that Cite. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur xx. x. 814 All his hoost made hem redy to laye syege aboute sir Launcelot. 1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. kvjv/1 He layed syege tofore it by the space of foure monethes. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 230 Gar lay ane sege unto ȝone fort. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. clxxxiiij King Fernando besegeth Offen or Buda and layeth to it battery. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. ii. 226 To lay an amiable siege to the honesty of this Fords wife. View more context for this quotation 1647 T. May Hist. Parl. iii. v. 98 Three daies after the siege was layed. 1713 Light to Blind in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 200 His General..had lay'd a blocade..to Girona with 12,000 men. 1867 C. M. Yonge Cameos lxxxvi, in Monthly Packet Dec. 536 He laid siege to Roxburgh Castle. < as lemmas |
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