| 单词 | expugnation |
| 释义 | † expugˈnation Obs.
Also 6 expugnacion.
[a. OF. expugnation, ad. L. expugnātiōn-em, n. of action f. expugnāre: see expugn.]
1. The action of taking by storm; conquest.
1524More in Ellis Orig. Lett. i. 88 I. 255 At Pavia by th' expugnation wherof he thought to put all the remanant in fere and drede. 1555Eden Decades 171 The expugnation and recouerie of the kyngedome of Granata. a1639Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. v. (1677) 270 The Regent intreateth..help for the expugnation of the Castle. 1680Morden Geog. Rect. Spain 176 The Phocensis..a little before their Expugnation by Cyrus.
b. Storming, assault.
1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. 254 Fergus..went with him to the expugnation of sindry othir townis in Italie. 1579Fenton Guicciard. iv. (1599) 165 To preuent that succour by the expugnation of Bybienna. 1618T. Gainsford P. Warbeck in Select. Harl. Misc. (1793) 88 The worthy general..cast up a strong..battery, for the expugnation.
2. Subduing or expelling by force of arms.
1429in Rymer Fædera (1710) X. 424 The Reduction and Expugnation of th' Eretikes. 1604T. Wright Passions i. i. 5 The life of a spirituall man ought to bee imployed in the expugnation of these molestfull Jebusites. 1624Gee Foot out of Snare 76 He fought a good fight..in expugnation of Heresies. 1657Tomlinson, Renou's Disp. 497 Medicaments for the expugnation of all diseases. |
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