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Webster 1913 Edition
Obsidional
Ob-sid′i-o-nal
,Adj.
Of or pertaining to a siege.
Obsidional crown
(Rom. Antiq.)
, a crown bestowed upon a general who raised the siege of a beleaguered place, or upon one who held out against a siege.
Webster 1828 Edition
Obsidional
OBSID'IONAL
,Adj.
Definition 2024
obsidional
obsidional
English
Adjective
obsidional
- Pertaining to a siege.
- 1846–1847, Henry Edward Napier, “Miscellaneous Chapter for the Fifteenth Century”, in Florentine History, from the Earliest Authentic Records to the Accession of Ferdinand the Third, Grand Duke of Tuscany. [...] In Six Volumes, volume IV, London: Edward Moxon, OCLC 70326326, page 3:
- Nor was this strong geographical position her [Florence's] only bulwark; the capital itself in those unskilful days of obsidional tactics was deemed impregnable except through famine.
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Translations
pertaining to a siege
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