Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Furnished with ramparts. See quotations under rampart, v.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
rampire .
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Examples
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The walks are faire and new, and strongly rampired with foure principall bulwarkes, and bettweene them turrions responding one to another, these walks did the Venetians make.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And lay their rampired towers in ruins on the ground. antistrophe 2
The Persians 2002
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And lay their rampired towers in ruins on the ground. antistrophe 2
The Persians 2002
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'Neath rampired Solidor pleasant riding on the Rance!'
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In this sense the great lines of Lucretius come to my mind as being applicable to the conception of a university as an earthly. institution, yet exalted above the vanity and turmoil of earthly strife: Sweeter by far on Wisdom's rampired height
In the days of my youth when I was a student in the University of Virginia, 1888-1893. James Powell Cocke 1947
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Raising my rampired walls of gold as transparent as glass,
Abt Vogler 1917
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Raising my rampired walls of gold as transparent as glass,
Abt Vogler. (After He Has Been Extemporizing Upon the Musical Instrument of His Invention) 1909
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Raising my rampired walls of gold as transparent as glass,
Robert Browning: How to Know Him William Lyon Phelps 1904
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Save for the outlying heights, green-rampired Cumberland Point;
In Divers Tones Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901
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Raising my rampired walls of gold as transparent as glass,
An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Hiram Corson 1869
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