ppl. a. Obs. [f. as prec. + -ED.] Besieged, beleaguered, beset.
1383. Wyclif, Sel. Wks. (1871), III. 274. To vitele þes men asegid.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot., I. 102. In flesche assegit with foul faminitie.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., II. xi. 15. Th’ assieged castles.
1614. Raleigh, Hist. World, II. V. i. § 2. 268. And left the Mutineers to be cut in pieces by the assieged.
