Forms: 5 enbatel, 6 enbatell, embatel, 7 embatle, 7– embattle. [f. EN- + BATTLE v.2; app. not in OF.] trans. To furnish (a building, wall, etc.) with battlements. Also fig.

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c. 1400.  [see EMBATTLED ppl. a.2].

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1463.  Bury Wills (1850), 37. I wil … that the Rysbygate … be … enbatelyd substancyally to endure.

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1530.  Palsgr., 532. I enbatell a wall, I make bastylmentes upon it.

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1538.  Leland, Itin., III. 34. Treury … embateling al tho Waulles of the House in a maner made it a Castelle.

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1610.  Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 753. To fortifie and Kernel his mansion house, that is, to embatle it.

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1627.  Speed, England Abr., xxvi. § 5. To build about and embattle a wall.

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1823.  Rutter, Fonthill, 71. Another parapet, pierced and embattled.

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1857.  Turner, Dom. Archit., II. Introd. 23. Licenses to embattle manor-houses.

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