[f. LEAGUER sb.]
† 1. refl. and intr. To set one’s leaguer, to encamp. Obs.
1629. S’hertogenbosh, 15. Leaguering himself on the East side of the Towne.
1676. W. Row, Contn. Blair’s Autobiog., x. (1848), 161. Where the army had leaguered the year preceding.
† b. To ‘lie,’ lodge. Obs. rare.
1596. Nashe, Saffron Walden, 157. When I legerd by him in the Dolphin.
2. trans. To besiege, beleaguer. Chiefly in Leaguered, Leaguering ppl. adjs.
1715–20. Pope, Iliad, XVIII. 593. Two mighty hosts a leaguer’d town embrace.
1794. Coleridge, Robespierre, II. i. That the voice of truth … though leagured round By envy and her hateful brood of hell, Be heard.
1816. Byron, Siege Cor., ii. The crescent shines Along the Moslem’s leaguering lines.
1855. W. Sargent, Braddock’s Exped., 362. His … defence of Detroit against Pontiac and his leaguering hordes.
1860. T. Martin, Horace, 19. The watchfires round Troy’s leaguer’d wall.
