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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

obsidionalis

, from

obsidio

a siege,

obsidere

to besiege: cf. F.

obsidional

. See

Of or pertaining to a siege.

Obsidional crown

(Rom. Antiq.)

a crown bestowed upon a general who raised the siege of a beleaguered place, or upon one who held out against a siege.

Adj.

[L. obsidionalis; ob and sedeo, to sit.] Pertaining to a siege.