engarrison

English

Etymology

From en- +‎ garrison.

Verb

engarrison (third-person singular simple present engarrisons, present participle engarrisoning, simple past and past participle engarrisoned)

1. (transitive) To garrison; to put in garrison, or to protect by a garrison.
   • 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:

     Those strangers were no otherwise engaged, than as they, that would hold fair correspondence with the citizens, where they were engarrisoned.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “engarrison”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)