What does embattail mean?
Embattail means (archaic, transitive) To embattle (furnish with, or as if with, battlements).
Embattail
Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
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, […]
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Word Forms
- embattails
- embattailing
- embattailed
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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.
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