expugnation

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English

Etymology

Latin expugnatio.

Noun

expugnation (plural expugnations)

  1. The act of taking by assault; conquest.
    • 1615, George Sandys, “(please specify the page)”, in The Relation of a Iourney Begun An: Dom: 1610. , London: [Richard Field] for W. Barrett, →OCLC:
      the expugnation of Vienna, he could never accomplish

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “expugnation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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