[f. prec.]
1. trans. To form into a brigade or brigades; to join (a regiment or other body of troops) with others so as to form a brigade.
1805. Ann. Rev., III. 240. A shire is too large a division for brigading together the resident men in arms.
1837. Blackw. Mag., XLI. 37. The firemen … have been combined into one body—‘brigaded,’ as the rather affected phrase is.
1878. N. Amer. Rev., CXXVI. 85. My regiment was brigaded with the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Regiments.
2. loosely. To form (people) as if into a brigade; to combine, associate.
a. 1859. De Quincey, Whiggism, Wks. VI. 100. Brigaded with so many scowling republicans are to be found … nearly one-half of our aristocracy.
1878. Lady Herbert, trans. Hübner’s Ramble, II. iii. 537. Men, who were brigaded, and always ready to trouble the public.
