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单词 engarrison
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engarrisonv.

Forms: Also 1600s ingarrison.
Etymology: < en- prefix1 + garrison n.
Obsolete.
a. transitive. To serve as a garrison in.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > defence > defend [verb (transitive)] > garrison > occupy as garrison
garrison1645
engarrison1659
1659 W. Charleton Ephesian Matron 72 Think it below their Courage to engarrison that Fort.
b. To protect by a garrison.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defend [verb (transitive)] > garrison > protect by garrison
engarrison1640
garrison1693
1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 5 Neptune,..with a flying gard of brave winged Coursers doth engarrison her.
1853 J. H. Stocqueler Mil. Encycl. 96/1 Engarrison, to protect any place by a garrison.
c. To station as a garrison; passive only.
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1634 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. Hist. New Test. (STC 12640.5) 274 They that would hold faire correspondence with the citizens, where they were engarisoned.
1671 P. Heylyn Help to Eng. Hist. 270 There lay engarrison'd the Captain of the Crispinian Horsemen.
d. reflexive. To establish (oneself) in, as in a garrison or fortification; to entrench (oneself).
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > take refuge or shelter [verb (reflexive)]
fleea1400
shroud1553
shadea1586
ensconce1590
refuge1604
shelter1611
engarrison1682
1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 29 The Gyant had..ingarrisoned himself in the Town of Mansoul. View more context for this quotation
1683 W. Cave Ecclesiastici 397 I will not..engarrison myself within crowds of People.
a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) IX. 133 When he has once engarrison'd himself in a strong hold.
1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 314 In the various nations where they ingarrisoned themselves.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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