v. Obs. [f. L. expugnāt- ppl. stem of expugnāre.] trans. = EXPUGN.
1568. C. Watson, Polyb., 66 b. There began a wonderfull tempest to aryse, which the Carthaginean Maryners espying … counsayled Carthalon to expugnate [mistransl. κάμψαι, ‘to double’] the promontarie Pachinus.
1625. Purchas, Pilgrims, II. 1266. Dominicke … had helpers with the Sword, to expugnate those which his word could not.
