a. (UN-1 7 b.)
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. xlviii. 11. A Citie very wel fortified and unassaultable.
1582. Bentley, Mon. Matrones, 334. When I bethinke me what a tower of strength … and unassaultable habitation thou hast euer beene.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xxiii. 114. A breach made in the wall, not farre from the Water-gate, but yet vnassaultable, the English within so maintained the defence.
1653. A. Wilson, Jas. I., 216. It is a great disadvantage for living Bodies to fight against dead Walls, being so high, and unassaultable.
a. 1711. Ken, Christophil, Poet. Wks. 1721, I. 516. O Realm of undisturb’d repose, Thrones unassaultable by Woes!
