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Webster 1913 Edition
Embattail
Em-bat′tail
,Verb.
T.
[See
Embattle
.] To furnish with battlements; to fortify as with battlements.
[Archaic]
To
With iron-worded proof.
embattail
and to wall about thy causeWith iron-worded proof.
Tennyson.
Definition 2024
embattail
embattail
English
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, The Jerusalem Delivered of 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.
- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
- To embattail and to wall about thy cause / With iron-worded proof.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book I, lxiv: