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▪ I. † aˈssiege, v. Obs.
Forms: 3–4 asege, 4 aseege, 4–6 assege, 5–6 -yege, 6 -aige, -eige, 5–7 assiege.
[a. OF. asegier (mod. assiéger), cogn. with Pr. assetiar, assetjar, Sp. asediar, It. assediare:—late L. assediāre f. as- = ad- to, at + sedium (cf. obsidium) sitting, siege.]
To besiege, lay siege to, beleaguer, beset.
1297R. Glouc. 184 Kyng Arture and ys poer aseged hym wyþoute. c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 23 And how asegid was Ypolita The faire hardy quyen of Cithea. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 158/3 They had assyeged Jherusalem. 1522–4Diurn. Occurr. (1833) 8 And assaigit the castell of Wark. 1632J. Hayward Eromena 160 She was assieged, and in danger to bee lost.
▪ II. † aˈssiege, n. Obs.
Also 4 asseege, 4–5 assege, 6 assige.
[f. prec. Not in Fr.]
A siege.
1375Barbour Bruce xvii. 270 He..To the toune ane assege set. 1469Sir J. Paston in Lett. 621 II. 375, I have herde..werse tydyngs syn the assege by gan. 1589P. Ive Fortif. 5 The Winde and Seas alteration is such, that an Assige at Sea cannot be continued. 1598Florio, Oppugnatione..an assiege [not in ed. 1611]. |