† umsetv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To surround, invest.
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society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (transitive)] > surround or beset
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c1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 1250 For-why here we er on many wyse Alle umset with sere enmys.
a1352 Minot in Pol. Poems (Rolls) I. 77 With him come mani a kumly knight And all umset the bare obout.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 195 How Iuus iesu oft vmsette And for his sermon thrali thrette.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 15012 Wit harp and pipe, and horn and trump, þe strette þai him vmsette.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 6964 Cassibilan kynd brether þen þe kyng segh,..Vmset hym full sone in a sop hole.
c1650 (c1515) Flodden Field (Percy) l. 292 in J. W. Hales & F. J. Furnivall Bp. Percy's Folio MS (1867) I. 331 Sir Rice..Came with a feirce Menye; he bent his bowes on the bent to abyde, & cleane vnsett the gallow-tree.
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