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Webster 1913 Edition
Assiege
As-siege′
,Verb.
T.
To besiege.
[Obs.]
“Assieged castles.” Spenser.
As-siege′
,Noun.
A siege.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Definition 2024
assiege
assiege
English
Noun
assiege (plural assieges)
- (obsolete) A siege.
Verb
assiege (third-person singular simple present assieges, present participle assieging, simple past and past participle assieged)
- To besiege.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.xi:
- On th'other side, th' assieged Castles ward, / Their stedfast stonds did mightily maintaine [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.xi: