assiege

See also: assiégé and assiège

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːdʒ

Noun

assiege (plural assieges)

1. (obsolete) A siege.

Verb

assiege (third-person singular simple present assieges, present participle assieging, simple past and past participle assieged)

1. (transitive) To besiege.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto ix:

     On th'other side, th' assieged Castles ward, / Their stedfast stonds did mightily maintaine […]

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• aegises, ægises