† exˈpugnate, v. Obs.
[f. L. expugnāt- ppl. stem of expugnāre.]
trans. = expugn.
| 1568 C. Watson Polyb. 67 a, There began a wonderful tempest to arise, which the Carthaginian maryners espying..counsayled Carthalon to expugnate [mistransl. κάµψαι, ‘to double’] the promontarie Pachynus. 1625 Purchas Pilgrims ii. 1266 Dominicke..had helpers with the sword to expugnate those which his word could not. |