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Webster 1913 Edition


Obsidional

Ob-sid′i-o-nal

,
Adj.
[L.
obsidionalis
, from
obsidio
a siege,
obsidere
to besiege: cf. F.
obsidional
. See
Obsess
.]
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Obsidional

OBSID'IONAL

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

Definition 2024


obsidional

obsidional

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obsidional

  1. Pertaining to a siege.
    • 1846–1847, Henry Edward Napier, “Miscellaneous Chapter for the Fifteenth Century”, in Florentine History, from the Earliest Authentic Records to the Accession of Ferdinand the Third, Grand Duke of Tuscany. [...] In Six Volumes, volume IV, London: Edward Moxon, OCLC 70326326, page 3:
      Nor was this strong geographical position her [Florence's] only bulwark; the capital itself in those unskilful days of obsidional tactics was deemed impregnable except through famine.

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