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Definition of Fortified
1. Adjective. Secured with bastions or fortifications.
2. Adjective. Having something added to increase the strength. "Fortified wine"
Definition of Fortified
1. Verb. (past of ''fortify'') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fortified
1. fortify [v] - See also: fortify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fortified
Literary usage of Fortified
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rise of the Dutch Republic: A History. by John Lothrop Motley (1861)
"that you ask, and having thus fortified yourselves more than you were ever
fortified before, you will make war upon us. ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... Cognac, and La Charité (strongly fortified towns) as pledges of the good faith
of the government, and withdrawal of the king from alliance with Spain. ..."
3. Works by Washington Irving (1857)
"fortified Camp at King's Bridge—American and British Lines—The Morris ...
THIJ fortified camp, where the main body of the army was now assembled, ..."
4. In Darkest Africa; Or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of by Henry Morton Stanley (1890)
"fortified stations in the Province—Storms at ... The other fortified stations
are named Fabbo, east of Nile; Duffle' end of navigation ..."
5. Thucydides Translated Into English by Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides (1881)
"... and, having thus freed a way into the channel dividing Minoa from the coast
of Megara, he fortified the point nearest the mainland, where, ..."
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