† umsiegev.
Obsolete.
transitive. To besiege.
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
a1325 Prose Psalter xxi. 16 Þe counseil of wicked vmseged me.
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxi. 11 Fat bulles me has vmseged.
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 226 What cetie at þai vmsegid, þai trustid to gett & wyn itt.
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 220 When Titus had vmsegid Jerusalem ij yere.
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