Embattail
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Embattail is a verb meaning (archaic, transitive) To embattle (furnish with, or as if with, battlements).
Meaning
(archaic, transitive) To embattle (furnish with, or as if with, battlements).
Example Sentences
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.
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, […]
Word Forms
- embattails
- embattailing
- embattailed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include embattle, abattle, batten, battel, bastion, emboss.
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