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Definition of Assiege
1. v. t. To besiege.
2. n. A siege.
Definition of Assiege
1. Noun. (obsolete) A siege. ¹
2. Verb. To besiege. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Assiege
1. to besiege [v ASSIEGED, ASSIEGING, ASSIEGES] - See also: besiege
Literary usage of Assiege
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer, Nicholas Harris Nicolas, Thomas Tyrwhitt (1845)
"(Quod Pandarus) " All this know I my selve, And all th'assiege of Thebes, and
the care, For hereof ben there maked bookes twelve: But let be this, ..."
2. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Staistical by Francis Hindes Groome (1882)
"... with stalwart hand Ana twa gallies of Genoa had ho, For till assiege it by
the sea. ... Of this assiege in their ..."
3. The British poets, including translations by British poets (1822)
"(Quod Pandarus) " All this know I my selve, And all th'assiege of Thebes, and
the care, For hereof ben there maked bookes twelve: But let be this, ..."
4. Vauban, Montalembert, Carnot: Engineer Studies by Ernest Marsh Lloyd (1887)
"When they assiege a place they encamp at the first out of danger of the enemy's
artillery: before they make any approaches they do what they can to make ..."
5. Old Dundee, Ecclesiastical, Burghal, and Social, Prior to the Reformation by Maxwell, Alexander, F.S.A. Scotland (1891)
"... at the comand of the Lords of the Congregation, in the year 1560, at the
assiege of Leith, he made grite labours and costs upon the curing and healing ..."
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