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▪ I. besiege, v.|bɪˈsiːdʒ|
Forms: 3–6 bysege, 4 biseche, 4–5 be-, bisege, 5 biseige, 7 besiedge, -sige, 5– besiege.
[ME. bi-, by-, besege(n, f. be- 1 + sege(n, aphetic f. asege(n, assiege.]
1. trans. To sit down before (a town, castle, etc.) with armed forces in order to capture it; to lay siege to, beleaguer, invest.
1297R. Glouc. 387 Þys ost wende þuderward..And byseged þen castel syx wouke wel vaste. a1300Cursor M. 9211 Twelve moneþ he biseged hit. c1380Sir Ferumb. 4275 Þyn barons..þat so buþ be-seged on þat tour. 1382Wyclif Isa. xxi. 2 Steeȝh vp, Elam, and bisege [v.r. biseche] Medeba. c1440Gesta Rom. 9 A certeyn Cite..was biseigyd with..enemeys of þe Emperoure. 1595Shakes. John ii. i. 489 This Cittie now by vs besiedg'd. 1611Bible 1 Sam. xxiii. 8 Saul called all the people together..to besiege Dauid, and his men. 1671Milton P.R. iii. 339 Agrican with all his northern powers Besieg'd Albracca. 1844Thirlwall Greece VII. lx. 67 Antigonus besieged the city for ten months.
b. fig. and transf.
c1600Shakes. Sonn. ii, When forty winters shall besiege thy brow. 1601― All's Well ii. i. 10 The mallady That doth my life besiege. 1608R. Armin Nest Ninn. 31 Having wrung off her neck, begins to besiedge that good morsel.
2. transf. To crowd round like a besieging army; to block up, hem in.
1686Gentl. Recr. i. 101 A Planet is besieged, when he is between the Bodies of the two..Malevolents, Saturn and Mars. 1717Pope Elegy Unfort. Lady 38 Frequent hearses shall besiege your gates. 1789Jefferson Corr. (1830) 20 The people have besieged the doors of the bakers.
3. fig. To assail with importunate addresses or prayers.
1712Steele Spect. No. 534 ⁋5 There is one gentleman who besieges me as close as the French did Bouchain. 1737Pope Hor. Ep. i. vii. 29 Fools with compliments besiege ye. 1850Alison Hist. Europe VIII. l. §45 The ministers were besieged with innumerable applications for every office. 1867Parkman Jesuits N. Amer. xix. (1875) 293 Pious souls..who daily and nightly besieged Heaven with supplications.
▪ II. † beˈsiege, n. Obs.
Also 6 beseyge, 7 beseige.
[f. prec. vb.]
Besieging, siege.
1552Huloet, Besiege laier, obsessor. 1599Hakluyt Voy. II. 15 The besiege of Sagitta. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xxiv. (1632) 1191 The besiege of Inis-Kellen. 1664Floddan F. iii. 22 Your saults and hard besiege. |