circumvallare

circumvallare [CL] 1 to surround, encircle. b (of persons) to throng round. c (fig.) to endue. dum corporea ‥ mundi factura septenis caelorum orbibus ~ata cingitur Aldh. Met. 3; cum ‥ mansionem angustam ~ante aggere ‥ construxisset Bede HE IV 28; confraga cum rubetis ~ata Balsh. Ut. 43; 1229 cimiterium sit decenter ~atum muro vel sepe vel fossato Conc. Syn. 172; s1379 bargia ‥ repente ~ata undique a multitudine galearum Wals. HA I 403. b omnibus qui ~abant cernentibus sic et mirantibus H. Bos. Thom. V 1; s1304 tela cadebant a dextris et a sinistris, ipsum [regem] nullatenus sed ipsum ~antes frequencius vulnerantes [sic] Flor. Hist. III 119; s1311 Edwardus ‥ rex ‥ catervis sic gloriose ~atus Plusc. IX 12; 1405 crebris insultibus inimicorum nostrorum nos undique ~ancium Cl 254 m. 15d.. c s651 [Oswinus] talibus virtutibus undique ~atus ‥ ad martyrium properabat M. Par. Maj. I 287. 2 (? for circumvolare) to circle round. [apes] genestarum cacumina ~antes Aldh. VirgV 3.

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