intrench

present singular third person intrenches · participle present intrenching · participle past intrenched · past intrenched

1. archaicArchaic form of entrench.

   We are not to intrench upon truth in any conversation, but least of all with children.

   1693, [John Locke], “§120”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC

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   Intrenched within the citadel of our apartment, and cheered by the comfortings of a coal fire, we passed the day in letter-writing, conversation, or gazing from the sheltered security of our windows upon the agitated sea[…]

   1836, Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, The American in England, page 269

   August 22.—In the afternoon ordered to support of the Army of West Virginia. Remained in this position until the 31st, when the command moved as far as Charlestown, taking up its old position. September 3.—Moved from camp near Charlestown, Va., and marched as far as Clifton, where the position was intrenched, and the command remained in it until the morning of the 19th.

   1972 [1893], United States War Department, “The Shenandoah Valley Campaign”, in The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (I), volume XLIII, Part I: Reports, Correspondence, etc., U.S. Government Printing Office, page 67