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encampment|ɛnˈkæmpmənt|
Also 8 incampment.
[f. encamp v. + -ment.]
1. The action of encamping; the state of being encamped.
1686Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) I. 381 The encampment of his majesties forces on Hounslow Heath. 1709Steele Tatler No. 60 ⁋9 The whole Art of Encampment. 1750Phil. Trans. XLVII. iii. 5 During our incampment in Dutch Brabant. 1774Goldsmith Grecian Hist. I. 222 They were once more obliged to forsake culture for encampment. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. I. (R.), A square of about seven hundred yards was sufficient for the encampment of twenty thousand Romans. 1836W. Irving Astoria II. 245 Two or three days after the encampment in the valley.
2. The place where a body of troops is lodged in tents or other temporary means of shelter, with or without intrenchments; = camp n.2 1. Also attrib. and fig.
1598Barret Theor. Warres v. ii. 150 Strong encampements, if commodities be cut off, not much available. 1713Pope in Guardian No. 173 ⁋8 A green encampment yonder meets the eye, And loaded citrons bearing shields and speares. 1732T. Lediard Sethos II. viii. 169 An incampment which was forming in haste. 1838Lytton Leila i. i, The immense and murmuring encampment of the Spanish foe.
b. transf. The temporary quarters, formed by tents, vehicles, etc., occupied by a body of nomads or men on the march, travellers, etc.; = camp n.2 4. Also fig.
1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 64 The creek..where they had formed their encampment. 1825Bro. Jonathan III. 418 Signs of a small Indian encampment. 1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 127 A lobster..So old that barnacles had spread Their white encampments o'er its head. 1884Harper's Mag. Feb. 339/1 Encampments are common..along the Thames.
†3. A Masonic meeting. Obs.
1787in Burns' Wks. (1856) II. 83 note, At a general encampment held this day, the following brethren were made Royal Arch Masons, viz.—Robert Burns, etc. 1878Woodford Kenning's Masonic Cyclop., Encampment, the name formerly given to the assemblies of Masonic Knights Templar. |