arch. [f. as prec. + -MENT.] A besieging or beleaguering, a siege.
1587. Fleming, Contn. Holinshed, III. 965/2. The assiegement of those two townes, Bullongne and Muttrell.
1839. Bailey, Festus (1848), 64/2. They vanish from the assiegement of the saints.
