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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
embattail
and to wall about thy cause
With 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)

  1. (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.