embattail
English
Etymology
See embattle.
Verb
embattail (third-person singular simple present embattails, present participle embattailing, simple past and past participle embattailed)
- (archaic, transitive) To furnish with battlements; to fortify as if with battlements.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), Jerusalem Delivered, Tasso, Book I, lxiv:
- The glorious standard last to heav'n they spread, / With Peter's keys ennobled, and his crown, // With it seven thousand stout Camillo had, / Embattailed in walls of iron brown.
- 1830, Alfred Tennyson, “To J. M. K.”, in The Complete Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Chicago, Ill.: The Dominion Company, published 1897, OCLC 1157956905, page 32:
- Thou art no Sabbath drawler of old saws, / Distill'd from some worm-canker'd homily; / But spurr'd at heart with fieriest energy / To embattail and to wall about thy cause / With iron-worded proof, […]
- 1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), Jerusalem Delivered, Tasso, Book I, lxiv:
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for embattail in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)