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Is that the meaning you meant? - [[User:Cian|Cian Gillebhrath]] |
Is that the meaning you meant? - [[User:Cian|Cian Gillebhrath]] |
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:I believ you will also find a meaning (arising from the next step to yours) of entering a town or city in triumph -- to cover, to envelop, also to endow with authority. |
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:The new regime, having (by your meaning) invested, i.e. beseiged, then invests by enveloping and entering in to, thereby endowing it with the authority of legitimacy as opposed to enmity. |
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:However, if you can think of a better synonym ... |
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:--[[User:Simoncursitor|Simoncursitor]] 13:30, 12 Nov 2004 (EST) |
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Latest revision as of 13:30, 12 November 2004
Simon, "to invest a city" means:
(Mil.) To inclose; to surround of hem in with troops, so as to intercept succors of men and provisions and prevent escape; to lay siege to; as, to invest a town.
Is that the meaning you meant? - Cian Gillebhrath
- I believ you will also find a meaning (arising from the next step to yours) of entering a town or city in triumph -- to cover, to envelop, also to endow with authority.
- The new regime, having (by your meaning) invested, i.e. beseiged, then invests by enveloping and entering in to, thereby endowing it with the authority of legitimacy as opposed to enmity.
- However, if you can think of a better synonym ...
- --Simoncursitor 13:30, 12 Nov 2004 (EST)
