‖ anspeˈssade
[Fr. l'anspessade erron. for lanspessade, lancespessade, ad. It. lancia spezzata broken lance; applied originally, it is said, to a cavalier, who, on his horse being killed under him, was made a petty officer in the foot. See Littré.]
| 1751 Chambers Cycl., Anspessades or Lanspessades, a kind of inferior officers in the foot, below the corporals. 1800 Coleridge Wallenstein ii. iii. note, Anspessade..a soldier inferior to a corporal but above the sentinels. |