Definition of Assieged

1. Verb. (past of assiege) ¹

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Definition of Assieged

1. assiege [v] - See also: assiege

Literary usage of Assieged

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Vauban, Montalembert, Carnot: Engineer Studies by Ernest Marsh Lloyd (1887)
"If they think the place assieged too well manned or the seat such by nature, that batteries can do no good, they will block it up with forts in such sort ..."

2. Hakluytus Posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... that it it would please him to suffer him to returne to the place for to have the advise and deliberation of the assieged, which he could not obtaine, ..."

3. Hakluytus posthumus or Purchas his pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... that it it would please him to suffer him to returne to the place for to have the advise and deliberation of the assieged, which he could not obtaine, ..."

4. The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt by Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829)
"... and left the mutineers to be cut in pieces by the assieged: so returning home, and levying an army of his own citizens, well trained and obedient, ..."

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