▪ I. sackage, n. Now rare.
(ˈsækɪdʒ)
Also 6–7 saccage.
[a. F. saccage, according to Hatz.-Darm. a verbal noun f. saccager: see sackage v.]
1. The action, or an act, of sacking (a city, etc.).
| 1577–87 Holinshed Chron. III. 1097/1 For the defense and safegard of this citie from spoile and saccage. 1583 Babington Commandm. (1590) 226 In sackages of Cities. 1601 Holland Pliny I. xv. xviii. 443 Howbeit Cato survived not the rasing and saccage of Carthage, for he died the yeare immediatly following this resolution. 1654 tr. Martini's Conq. China 190 The sackage endured from the 24. of November till the 5. of December. 1755 T. H. Croker Orl. Fur. xxxiii. xli, Ravenna is in sackage laid. 1808 Southey Chron. Cid 386 Some among us, says he, in this city, count from the sackage of the Jews. 1875 Tennyson Q. Mary ii. ii, To guard and keep you whole and safe from all The spoil and sackage aim'd at by these rebels. |
† 2. Booty, plunder. Obs. rare—1.
| 1609 Holland Amm. Marcell. xxiv. viii. 251 When the saccage therefore was divided and dealt,..himselfe tooke for his share a dumbe boy. |
▪ II. † ˈsackage, ˈsaccage, v. Obs.
[a. F. saccager, prob. ad. It. sacheggiare, f. sacco sack n.2]
trans. To put to sack; to plunder.
| 1585 T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. i. vii. 5 b, Their intent was to..haue good means to saccage vs. Ibid. xii. 13 b, The houses..hauing been twise saccaged [orig. deux fois saccagees] and spoyled by the Spaniardes. 1628 Priv. Mem. Sir K. Digby (1828) 28 Before they went out of it they saccaged the town. 1662 J. Bargrave Pope Alex. VII (1867) 94 They..set upon the barch [? read bank] where the money was, and sackaged all. 1687 A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 6 It..having been..saccaged and ruined by a Roman Army. |
Hence † ˈsaccaging vbl. n., † ˈsaccagement.
| 1585 T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. xiii. 48 b, The saccaging..continued 3. daies. Ibid. iv. xxxvi. 160 The ruine, saccagement, & desolation of their countrey. 1654 tr. Martini's Conq. China 90 After the saccaging and burning of so many Provinces. |