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▪ I. reaˈssault, n.
[re- 5 a.]
A renewed or repeated assault.
1611Florio, Riassalto, a re-assault. 1631R. Byfield Doctr. Sabb. 3 Never so subtle or serpentine in malice to a re-assault. a1711Ken Urania Poet. Wks. 1721 IV. 471 The Chaste..By Watching, Prayr, Fasts, Alms, Lust's Fury quell, and all its reassaults repell.
▪ II. reaˈssault, v.
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To assault or attack again.
1654H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 24 One Turner a Doctor of Physick, reassaults it in these six Queries. 1674T. Flatman Agst. Thoughts Poems 102 Then they throng again, And reassault me with a trebled pain. a1711Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 220 Soon as this lower World becomes our own, We with success may reassault the Throne. 1851C. L. Smith tr. Tasso iii. xxiii, She covered her fair head..And re-assaulted him. |