See assailen in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"english": "Forsooth, men of Gath born in the land killed him, for they went down to assail her possessions.",
"ref": "c. 1390, John Wycliffe, transl., edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal Books, in the Earliest English Versions (Wycliffe's Bible), volume II, Oxford UP, published 1850, I. Paralipomenon VII.21, page 334, column 2:",
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"ipa": "/aˈsæi̯lən/"
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"present"
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"source": "conjugation",
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"plural"
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},
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"source": "conjugation",
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"past",
"plural"
]
},
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"plural",
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"plural",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"source": "conjugation",
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"present"
]
},
{
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"source": "conjugation",
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"english": "Forsooth, men of Gath born in the land killed him, for they went down to assail her possessions.",
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"text": "Forsothe men of Geth borun in the lond killiden hem, for thei ȝeden doun to assaile her possessiouns.",
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}
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"To assail or assault; to loot or attack."
],
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],
[
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"assault"
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]
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{
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"To begin or launch an assault or military operation."
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"To affect; to induce towards (used of feelings)"
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},
{
"glosses": [
"To lure or draw into sin, perfidy, or iniquity."
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To insult; to launch into a tirade or rant against."
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"To try or undertake (an endeavour or behaviour)"
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},
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"Middle English terms with rare senses"
],
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"To become (dead or slumbering)"
],
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"(rare) To become (dead or slumbering)"
],
"tags": [
"rare"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with rare senses"
],
"glosses": [
"To have intercourse; to mate (used of animals)."
],
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],
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"(rare) To have intercourse; to mate (used of animals)."
],
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]
},
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"Middle English terms with rare senses"
],
"glosses": [
"To assay; to investigate something."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) To assay; to investigate something."
],
"tags": [
"rare"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with rare senses"
],
"glosses": [
"To plead; to beseech."
],
"links": [
[
"plead",
"plead"
],
[
"beseech",
"beseech"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) To plead; to beseech."
],
"tags": [
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/aˈsæi̯lən/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈsæi̯lən/"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "assaillen"
},
{
"word": "assaille"
},
{
"word": "assaylle"
},
{
"word": "asailen"
},
{
"word": "assaile"
},
{
"word": "assayle"
},
{
"word": "saile"
},
{
"word": "sayll"
},
{
"word": "saylen"
},
{
"word": "sailen"
},
{
"word": "saillen"
},
{
"word": "sayle"
},
{
"word": "seællen"
},
{
"word": "a-sayle"
}
],
"word": "assailen"
}
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