besiegement
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
besiegement (countable and uncountable, plural besiegements)
- The act of besieging, or the state of being besieged.
- 1578, Arthur Golding, The Abridgement of the Historyes of Trogus Pompeius:
- Setting before their eies besiegement, hungar, and the arrogant enemy.
References[edit]
- “besiegement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.