encamp, v.
(ɛnˈkæmp)
Also 6–8 incamp.
[f. en-1 + camp n.2]
1. trans. In military sense: To form into a camp; to settle or lodge in a camp.
| 1568 Grafton Chron. II. 618 He encamped his armye very stronglye, both with trenches and artillery. 1588 Shakes. Tit. A. v. ii. 126 Bid him encampe his Souldiers where they are. 1640 E. Dacres tr. Machiavelli's Prince etc. 83 It is almost impossible that an army can lye incampt before a towne for the space of a whole yeere. 1727 Pope, etc. Art Sinking 110 The almighty encamping his regiments. 1748 Anson Voy. ii. xiii. (ed. 4) 369 There were large parties of them incamped in the woods. 1863 Geo. Eliot Romola (1880) I. ii. xxvi. 325 The terrible soldiery were encamped in the Prato. |
† b. refl. Obs.
| 1549 Cheke Hurt Sedit. (1641) 15 Yee have..encamped your selfe in field. 1592 Shakes. Rom. & Jul. ii. iii. 27 Two such opposed Kings encampe them still. |
c. intr. for refl.
| 1579 Fenton Guicciard. (1618) 111 The French men went to incampe in the wood of Incoronato. 1596 Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iv. iv. 82 What, is the King encamp'd? 1603 Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 171 The yong Emperor..incamped in the same place where he before lay. 1759 Robertson Hist. Scot. I. vii. 500 The nobles encamped at St. Ninian's. 1858 Knight Pop. Hist. Eng. IV. 394 The Earl of Feversham..encamped on this morass [Sedgmoor]. |
2. transf. (intr. and pass.) To lodge in the open in tents or other portable or improvised habitations.
| 1725 De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 261 We followed up the stream..encamping each night. 1794 Sullivan View Nat. II. 191 De la Condamine..was encamped months on the volcanos of Peru. 1815 Moore Lalla R. (1824) 170 The place where they encamped..was the first delightful spot they had come to. 1855 Emerson Misc., Tantalus Wks. (Bohn) III. 321 We are encamped in nature, not domesticated. |