embattling

Verb (1)

embattle (third-person singular simple present embattles, present participle embattling, simple past and past participle embattled)

1. (transitive) To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle.
2. To prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle.
   • In behalf of the dignity of whaling, I would fain advance naught but substantiated facts. But after embattling his facts, an advocate who should wholly suppress a not unreasonable surmise, which might tell eloquently upon his cause — such an advocate, would he not be blameworthy ?1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter XXV, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 124

   Synonyms:

   fortify

3. (intransitive) To be arrayed for battle.

Verb (2)

embattle (third-person singular simple present embattles, present participle embattling, simple past and past participle embattled)

1. (transitive) To furnish with battlements; to give the form of battlements to.
   • to embattle a wall

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