1) circumvallate. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...Surrounded with or as if with a rampart. 2. Anatomy Surrounded by a ridge or raised, wall-like structure. Latin circumvallre, circumvallt- : circum-, circum- + vallum,...
2) 229. Circumscription. Mawson, C.O. Sylvester. 1922. Roget s International
Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
... NOUN: CIRCUMSCRIPTION, limitation, inclosure; confinement (restraint) [See Restraint]; circumvallation; encincture; envelope [See Inclosure]. VERB: CIRCUMSCRIBE,...
3) 22099. Fielding, Sarah. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
...NUMBER:22099 QUOTATION:He began therefore to invest the fortress of my heart by a circumvallation of distant bows and respectful looks; he then entrenched his forces...
4) 233. Limit. Mawson, C.O. Sylvester. 1922. Roget s International Thesaurus
of English Words and Phrases
...frontier, precinct, marches; backwoods. BOUNDARY LINE, landmark; line of -demarcation, - circumvallation; pillars of Hercules; Rubicon, turning point; ne plus ultra...
5) 232. Inclosure. Mawson, C.O. Sylvester. 1922. Roget s International
Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
...[See Defense]; pale, paling, balustrade, rail, railing, quickset hedge, park paling, circumvallation, enceinte [F.]; ring fence; wall; hedge, hedgerow; espalier....
6) 717. Defense. Mawson, C.O. Sylvester. 1922. Roget s International Thesaurus
of English Words and Phrases
...chevaux de frise [F.]; abatis or abattis, barbed wire entanglements, vallum [Rom. antiq.], circumvallation, merlon, battlement, glacis; casemate; buttress, abutment;...
7) siege. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...stones, spears, pots of fire, and arrows. It was also common for besiegers to build a wall (circumvallation) around their objective to prevent sorties and a second...
8) 2. The Argive War. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...by Hermocrates. A small Spartan force under Gylippus arrived and prevented an Athenian circumvallation by taking the heights of Epipolae. 6 414 The Spartans invaded...
9) The Issue in the Revolution by Edward Everett. America: I. (1761-1837).
Vol. VIII. Bryan, William Jennings, ed. 1906. The World's Famous Orations
...trampled sallyport of some of the rural redoubts that form a part of the simple lines of circumvallation within which a half-armed American militia held the flower...
10) II. A Bird s-Eye View of Paris. Book III. Hugo, Victor Marie. 1917. Notre
Dame de Paris. Vol. XII. Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction
...saps, eats away, and finally swallows up this enclosure. Philip Augustus makes a fresh line of circumvallation, and immures Paris within a chain of massive and lofty...
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