| 单词 | weak-breach |
| 释义 | > as lemmasweak-breach c. Of a fortified place: Not possessed of sound defence (esp. in some part or on a particular side). Also †weak-breach (in quot. figurative). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > [adjective] > weak feeble1340 weakc1400 frail1790 c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) x. 40 Ynentes þe kirk of þe Sepulchre es þe citee maste wayke, for þe grete playne þat es betwene þe citee and þe kirke. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xiii. sig. Qq3v The glittering of the armour, and sounding of the trumpets giuing such an assault to the weake-breache of his false senses. 1604 King James VI & I Counterblaste to Tobacco sig. C2 He makes his breach and entrie, at some..parts thereof, which hee hath tried and found to bee weakest and least able to resist. 1652 H. Cogan tr. M. de Scudery Ibrahim Pref. sig. A6 It is of works of this nature, as of a place of war, where notwithstanding all the care the Engineer hath brought to fortifie it, there is alwayes some weak part found. 1673 W. Temple Observ. United Provinces viii. 251 Those Out-works which are either weak of themselves, or not well defensible for want of men. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 597 Bristol had fortifications which, on the north of the Avon..were weak. < as lemmas |
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