Word Meanings - SIEGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

It. seggia, seggio, zedio, a seat, asseggio, assedio, a siege, F. assiéger to besiege, It. & LL. assediare, L. obsidium a siege, besieging; all ultimately fr. L. sedere to sit. See Sit, and cf. See, 1. A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne.

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It. seggia, seggio, zedio, a seat, asseggio, assedio, a siege, F. assiéger to besiege, It. & LL. assediare, L. obsidium a siege, besieging; all ultimately fr. L. sedere to sit. See Sit, and cf. See, 1. A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne. "Upon the very siege of justice." Shak. A stately siege of sovereign majesty, And thereon sat a woman gorgeous gay. Spenser. In our great hall there stood a vacant chair . . . And Merlin called it "The siege perilous." Tennyson. 2. Hence, place or situation; seat. Ah! traitorous eyes, come out of your shameless siege forever. Painter . 3. Rank; grade; station; estimation. I fetch my life and being From men of royal siege. Shak. 4. Passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter. The siege of this mooncalf. Shak. 5. The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under Blockade. 6. Hence, a continued attempt to gain possession. Love stood the siege, and would not yield his breast. Dryden. 7. The floor of a glass-furnace. 8. A workman's bench. Knught. Siege gun, a heavy gun for siege operations. -- Siege train, artillery adapted for attacking fortified places.

Related words: (words related to SIEGE)

• BESIEGER
  One who besieges; -- opposed to the besieged.
• THRONE
  A high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy; -- a meaning given by the schoolmen. Milton. Great Sire! whom thrones celestial ceaseless sing. Young. (more info) 1. A chair of state, commonly a royal seat, but sometimes the seat of a prince,
• ROYALIZE
  to make royal. Shak.
• BESIEGEMENT
  The act of besieging, or the state of being besieged. Golding.
• ROYALIZATION
  The act of making loyal to a king. Saintsbury.
• SIEGEWORK
  A temporary fort or parallel where siege guns are mounted.
• THRONELESS
  Having no throne.
• SIEGE
  It. seggia, seggio, zedio, a seat, asseggio, assedio, a siege, F. assiéger to besiege, It. & LL. assediare, L. obsidium a siege, besieging; all ultimately fr. L. sedere to sit. See Sit, and cf. See, 1. A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne.
• ROYALTY
  1. The state of being royal; the condition or quality of a royal person; kingship; kingly office; sovereignty. Royalty by birth was the sweetest way of majesty. Holyday. 2. The person of a king or sovereign; majesty; as, in the presence of royalty.
• ROYALIST
  An adherent of a king (as of Charles I. in England, or of the Bourbons in france); one attached to monarchical government. Where Ca'ndish fought, the Royalists prevailed. Waller.
• ROYALISM
  the principles or conduct of royalists.
• ROYALET
  A petty or powerless king. there were at this time two other royalets, as only kings by his leave. Fuller.
• ESPECIALLY
  In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
• ROYALLY
  In a royal or kingly manner; like a king; as becomes a king. His body shall be royally interred. Dryden.
• ROYAL
  fr. L. regalis, fr. rex, regis, king. See Rich, and cf. regal, real a 1. Kingly; pertaining to the crown or the sovereign; suitable for a king or queen; regal; as, royal power or prerogative; royal domains; the royal family; royal state. 2. Noble;
• ULTIMATELY
  As a final consequence; at last; in the end; as, afflictions often tend to correct immoral habits, and ultimately prove blessings.
• ROYAL SPADE
  A spade when spades are trumps under the condition that every trick over six taken by the successful bidder has a score value of 9; -- usually in pl.
• BESIEGE
  To beset or surround with armed forces, for the purpose of compelling to surrender; to lay siege to; to beleaguer; to beset. Till Paris was besieged, famished, and lost. Shak. Syn. -- To environ; hem in; invest; encompass. (more info) Etym:
• SUPERROYAL
  Larger than royal; -- said of a particular size of printing and writing paper. See the Note under Paper, n.
• UNTHRONE
  To remove from, or as from, a throne; to dethrone. Milton.
• DISTHRONE
  To dethrone.
• DETHRONEMENT
  Deposal from a throne; deposition from regal power.
• DETHRONER
  One who dethrones.
• DETHRONE
  To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of supreme authority and dignity. "The Protector was dethroned." Hume.
• PENNYROYAL
  An aromatic herb of Europe; also, a North American plant resembling it in flavor. Bastard pennyroyal See Blue curls, under Blue. (more info) puliall is ultimately derived fr. L. puleium, or pulegium regium (so called as being good against
• SURROYAL
  One of the terminal branches or divisions of the beam of the antler of the stag or other large deer.
• RESIEGE
  To seat again; to reinstate. Spenser.
• REINTHRONE
  See REëNTHRONE
• INTHRONE
  See ENTHRONE