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Webster 1913 Edition
Encamp
En-camp′
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Encamped
(?; 215)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Encamping
.] To form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporary habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch tents, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a longer time, as an army or a company traveling.
The host of the Philistines
encamped
in the valley of Rephaim. 1 Chron. xi. 15.
En-camp′
,Verb.
T.
To form into a camp; to place in a temporary habitation, or quarters.
Bid him
encamp
his soldiers. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Encamp
ENCAMP'
,Verb.
I.
They encamped in Etham. Ex.13.
The Levites shall encamp about the tabernacle. Num.1.
1.
To pitch tents for the purpose of a siege; to besiege.Encamp against the city and take it. 2 Sam. 7.