v. Obs. Also 7 ingarrison. [f. EN-1 + GARRISON.] a. trans. To serve as a garrison in. b. To protect by a garrison. c. To station as a garrison; pass. only. d. refl. To establish (oneself) in, as in a garrison or fortification; to entrench (oneself).
1612–5. Bp. Hall, Contempl. N. T., IV. xxxii. (1634), 274 They that would hold faire correspondence with the citizens, where they were engarisoned.
1640. Howell, Dodona’s Gr., 5. Neptune … with a flying gard of brave winged Coursers doth engarrison her.
1641. Heylin, Help to Hist. (1671), 270. There lay engarrison’d the Captain of the Crispinian Horsemen.
1668. Charleton, Ephes. & Cimm. Matrons, 46. Think it below their Courage to engarrison that Fort.
1682. Bunyan, Holy War, 27. The giant had … ingarrisoned himself in the town of Mansoul.
1683. Cave, Ecclesiastici, 397. I will not I assure you engarrison my self within crowds of People.
a. 1716. South, Serm. (1744), IX. v. 133 (R.). He has once engarrison’d himself in a strong hold.
1775. Adair, Amer. Ind., 314. In the various nations where they ingarrisoned themselves.
1853. Stocqueler, Mil. Encycl., Engarrison, to protect any place by a garrison.
