Crossword clues for embattled
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Embattled \Em*bat"tled\, a.
Having indentations like a battlement. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.(Her.) Having the edge broken like battlements; -- said of a bearing such as a fess, bend, or the like.
Having been the place of battle; as, an embattled plain or field.
--J. Baillie.
Embattle \Em*bat"tle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embattled; p. pr. & vb. n. Embattling.] [OF. embataillier; pref. em- (L. in) + F. bataille battle. See Battle, and cf. Battlement.] To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle; also, to prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle.
One in bright arms embattled full strong.
--Spenser.
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.
--Emerson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"under attack," by 1882; earlier and more etymologically it meant "prepared to fight" (late 15c.), and (of structures) "fitted with battlements" (late 14c.); past participle adjective from embattle (v.).
Wiktionary
1 Subject to or troubled by battles, controversy or debates. 2 Prepared or armed for battle. 3 Of a wall, fortress, etc., having battlements or crenellations. 4 (context heraldry English) Drawn with a line of alternating square indentations and extensions. v
(en-past of: embattle)
WordNet
adj. beset with attackers or controversy or conflict; "embattled troops"; "an embattled governor"
prepared for battle; "an embattled city"
having repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; "a crenelated molding" [syn: crenelated, crenelate, crenellated, crenellate, indented]
Usage examples of "embattled".
The place was a vast embattled fortress of ease, and how would a messenger fare here who brought a summons to hazard all?
The bloodstone ring, loose on his finger, sailing away from his hand as he cast the spear, arcing over the embattled swampland.
A malignant intelligence directed their onslaught, so that even the disjoined fragments conspired against the embattled humans.
They had hacked through half the distance to the embattled prominence when final disaster caught them.
Each time the battle line turned a few degrees, the hordes of tartaned irregulars swept against the embattled wooden walls.
But O, build it strong and stanch, And to the lines and the treacherous rocks look well as yon launch Over the foamy tops of the waves, and their foam-sprent sides, Over the hidden reefs, and through the embattled tides, Onward rushes the raft, with many a lurch and leap,-- Lord!
The Oraycha will be able to range beneath our embattled naviesto ensnare and annihilate any warship that lacks a protective talisman.
Their exact strengths were a little uncertain, because of the frequent exchange of control of an embattled warship.
Everywhere, in the embattled citadel, soldiers felt an unnatural rigor seize their flesh, all power slip from their limbs, as their minds became prisoners within their own bodies.
He seemed satisfied that the two of them should lie there, for all time, each holding the other down, like two embattled stags with their horns inextricably locked.
In the encounter between those two embattled enemies had lurked an intensity of passion which he could not understand, which seemed strangely akin to insanity itself.
Coity church, dating from the 14th century, is a fine cruciform building with central embattled tower in Early Decorated style.
The gateway, an embattled structure with flanking turrets, is particularly fine, the entire front being panelled and ornamented with canopied niches.
Many hundred feet in length was the terrace from north to south, and at either end a flight of black marble steps led down to the level of the inner ward and its embattled wall.
Gashterndale up on to Krothering Side, Corinius let pitch his camp under Erngate End, at the foot of the scree-strewn slopes that rise steeply to the high western face of the mountain, where the lean embattled crags far aloft stand like a wall against high heaven.