munite
English
Etymology
From the participle stem of Latin mūnīre (“to wall round, fortify”), earlier moenīre, from moenia (“walls”).
Pronunciation
Verb
munite (third-person singular simple present munites, present participle muniting, simple past and past participle munited)
- (obsolete, transitive) To fortify, strengthen. [16th-19th c.]
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 47, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book I, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- being in his owne Countrie, and amidst good friends, he had the better leasure to re-enforce his decayed forces, and more opportunity, to strengthen Townes, to munite Castles, to store Rivers with all necessaries they wanted […].
- Francis Bacon
- Concerning the means of procuring unity, men must beware, that, in the procuring or muniting of religious unity, they do not dissolve and deface the laws of charity and of human society.
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Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:strengthen
Italian
Verb
munite
Latin
References
- munite in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- munite in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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