also 5 bastyle. [a. OF. bastille-r (also bateillier), f. bastille; see prec. In sense 2 formed on the Eng. sb.]
† 1. To fortify (a castle). Obs.
1480. Caxton, Ovid’s Met., XI. v. Laomedon … redyed hym for to bastyle & edefy the new Troye.
c. 1500. Partenay, 1134. When thys castell was bastiled fair.
2. To confine in a bastille; to imprison.
1742. Young, Nt. Th., IX. 1058. Instead of forging chains for foreigners, Bastile thy Tutor.
a. 1798. Mary Wollstonecr., Wks., II. 34. Marriage had bastilled me for life.
1863. W. Phillips, Speeches, xix. 422. One thousand men … are ‘bastiled’ by an authority as despotic as that of Louis.
