bastile

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Noun

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bastile (plural bastiles)

  1. Obsolete spelling of bastille.

Verb

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bastile (third-person singular simple present bastiles, present participle bastiling, simple past and past participle bastiled)

  1. Obsolete spelling of bastille.
    • 1745, [Edward Young], “Night the Ninth and Last. The Consolation. Containing, among Other Things, I. A Moral Survey of the Nocturnal Heavens. II. A Night-Address to the Deity. []”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: [] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar [], and R[obert] Dodsley [], published 1750, →OCLC, page 332:
      Inſtead of forging Chains for Foreigners, / Baſtile thy Tutor: Grandeur All thy Aim?
    • 1791 (first performance), [Frederic] Reynolds, Notoriety: A Comedy, Dublin: [] P. Byrne, [], published 1792, →OCLC, Act IV, scene [i], page 43:
      [W]hy if you don't ſcamper, you'll be baſtil'd, before you can ſay, "Killarney."
    • 1862 October, “A Southern Review”, in [Charles Godfrey Leland], editor, The Continental Monthly. Devoted to Literature and National Policy, volume II, number IV, New York, N.Y.: John F[owler] Trow, [], →OCLC, page 467, column 1:
      All the doleful stories of prisoners of earlier or later ages, in the Bastile, including much sentimental balderdash, are drawled out by a very stupid and would-be effective writer, for the purpose of proving that the imprisonment of political offenders and captives by the North is precisely on a par with that of ‘Bastiling’ them, and that Abraham Lincoln is only a revival of the worst kings of France in an American form.
    • 1863 January 8, Willard Saulsbury Sr., “Discharge of State Prisoners”, in John C. Rives, editor, The Congressional Globe: [] (United States Senate, 27th Congress, 3rd session), number 15 (New Series), Washington, D.C.: John C. Rives [] , →OCLC, page 233, column 2:
      I know that peaceable and unoffending citizens of my own State have been "bastiled" in different parts of the United States—"cut off from their family, their friends, and their every connection."

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Verb

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bastile

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of bastir combined with le