单词 | sieger |
释义 | siegern. Now rare. A besieger. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > attacker > [noun] > besieger or blockader sieger1533 besiege-layer1538 besieger1574 pursuera1578 assieger1608 beleaguer1611 beleaguerer1628 town-taker1654 blockader1759 investors1870 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. v. ix. 179 It had done during all þe said tyme mare dammage to þe segearis þan It gat. 1556 tr. J. de Flores Histoire de Aurelio & Isabelle sig. C2 He ordeyned that the house shulde be sette about with his siegers. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. viii. 488/1 He gaue commaund to his Seneschall..to withdraw the Seigers. 1774 Poetry in Ann. Reg. 215 The more delay the siegers found,..More fierce they mount the breach. 1825 W. Scott Betrothed xiii, in Tales Crusaders II. 272 Then let us make a fair sally upon the siegers. 1844 I. Williams Baptistery II. iv. 6 To..take his part With siegers or besieged. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1533 |
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