embattail

English

Verb

embattail (third-person singular simple present embattails, present participle embattailing, simple past and past participle embattailed)

1. (archaic, transitive) To embattle (furnish with, or as if with, battlements)
   • 1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), Jerusalem Delivered, 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.

   • 1830, Alfred Tennyson, “To J. M. K.”, in The Complete Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Chicago, Ill.: The Dominion Company, published 1897, →OCLC, page 32:

     Thou art no Sabbath drawler of old saws, / Distill'd from some worm-canker'd homily; / But spurr'd at heart with fieriest energy / To embattail and to wall about thy cause / With iron-worded proof, […]

References

• “embattail”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.