muˈnite, v. Obs. exc. Hist.
pa. pple. 5–6 munyte, 7 munite.
[f. L. mūnīt-, ppl. stem of mūnīre to wall round, fortify, secure, earlier mœnīre, f. mœnia pl., walls, ramparts; cogn. w. mūrus (earlier mœrus) wall.]
trans. To fortify, strengthen, protect. Hence † muˈnited ppl. a., † muˈniting vbl. n.
| c 1420 Pallad. on Husb. vi. 223 Other condite hem kepe in pottes clene With pyk munyte & couching throute alway. 1533 St. Papers Hen. VIII (1830) I. 411 note, The fortresses and havens to be fortifyed and munyted. 1578 Banister Hist. Man. i. 6 The head..in whose propper angles they are..strongly munited from all externe and accidentall iniuries. 1603 Florio Montaigne i. xlvii. (1632) 154 He had the better leasure to..strengthen Townes, to munite Castles [etc.]. 1624 Quarles Sion's Sonn. xx. 14 An yvorie Tower, In..munited power. 1625 Bacon Ess., Unity in Relig. (Arb.) 431 Men must beware, that in the Procuring, or Muniting, of Religious Vnity, they doe not Dissolue and Deface the Lawes of Charity. 1657 Earl of Monmouth tr. Paruta's Pol. Disc. 170 His Enemy is in the Dominions, in a well munited seat. 1665 J. Webb Stone-Heng 150 It was not unusual..to munite the Tumuli of their Dead with such empalements. 1696 Phillips (ed. 5), Munite, fenced, made strong. |