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muˈnite, v. Obs. exc. Hist.
pa. pple. 5–6 munyte, 7 munite.
[f. L. mūnīt-, ppl. stem of mūnīre to wall round, fortify, secure, earlier mœnīre, f. mœnia pl., walls, ramparts; cogn. w. mūrus (earlier mœrus) wall.]
trans. To fortify, strengthen, protect. Hence † muˈnited ppl. a., † muˈniting vbl. n.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. vi. 223 Other condite hem kepe in pottes clene With pyk munyte & couching throute alway. 1533St. Papers Hen. VIII (1830) I. 411 note, The fortresses and havens to be fortifyed and munyted. 1578Banister Hist. Man. i. 6 The head..in whose propper angles they are..strongly munited from all externe and accidentall iniuries. 1603Florio Montaigne i. xlvii. (1632) 154 He had the better leasure to..strengthen Townes, to munite Castles [etc.]. 1624Quarles Sion's Sonn. xx. 14 An yvorie Tower, In..munited power. 1625Bacon Ess., Unity in Relig. (Arb.) 431 Men must beware, that in the Procuring, or Muniting, of Religious Vnity, they doe not Dissolue and Deface the Lawes of Charity. 1657Earl of Monmouth tr. Paruta's Pol. Disc. 170 His Enemy is in the Dominions, in a well munited seat. 1665J. Webb Stone-Heng 150 It was not unusual..to munite the Tumuli of their Dead with such empalements. 1696Phillips (ed. 5), Munite, fenced, made strong. |