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embattail

embattail verb: to embattle (furnish with, or as if with, battlements).

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)
    • 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.1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), Jerusalem Delivered, Tasso, Book I, lxiv
    • 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, […]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

Forms of embattail

third-person singular presentembattails
present participleembattailing
past participleembattailed
pastembattailed

Questions about embattail

What does embattail mean?
Embattail means to embattle (furnish with, or as if with, battlements).
What part of speech is embattail?
Embattail is a verb.
What is the past tense of embattail?
The past tense of embattail is embattailed.

Words near embattail in the dictionary

  1. embastioned
  2. embathe
  3. embathed
  4. embathes
  5. embathing
  6. embattail
  7. embattailed
  8. embattailing
  9. embattails
  10. embatteled
  11. embattle

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