▪ I. dragonnade, n.
(drægəˈneɪd)
Also dragonade, dragoonade.
[a. F. dragonnade (18th c.), f. dragon dragoon: see -ade.]
In pl. a series of persecutions directed by Louis XIV against French Protestants, in which dragoons were quartered upon the persecuted. Hence, any persecution carried on with the help of troops. (Rare in sing.)
| a 1715 Burnet Own Time an. 1686 (T.), It was supported by the authority of a great king, and the terror of ill usage, and a dragoonade in conclusion. 1781 Justamond Priv. Life Lewis XV, III. 25 Notwithstanding the favourable accounts given..of these Religionists, it was in agitation to renew the Dragonades. 1856 Froude Hist. Eng. I. 403 France was to go her way through Bartholomew massacres and the dragonnades to a polished Louis the Magnificent. 1870 Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. xliv. 22 The dragoonades of Claverhouse. 1873 Smiles Huguenots Fr. ii. i. (1881) 291 To avoid the horrors of the dragonnade. |
▪ II. dragoˈnnade, v.
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To subject to a dragonnade; to dragoon.
| 1873 Smiles Huguenots Fr. ii. i. (1881) 289 The Huguenots..refused to be converted by the priests; and then Louis XIV determined to dragonnade them. |