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entrenched (iou) and bedight (iou)


entrenched (iou)



entrenched ppl adjective. . L16.
[from ENTRENCH + -ED1.]
Surrounded with or as with a trench; fortified; firmly established. L16.
Burke Their..stations..were strong intrenched camps. L. Hudson Some assaults on previously entrenched beliefs have been so violent.
b. Politics. Of constitutional legislation, esp. a clause or provision: unable to be repealed except under more than usually stringent conditions. M20.
Dug out like a trench. L16.

bedight (iou)



bedight verb trans. arch. Pa. t. bedight; pa. pple bedight(ed). LME.
[from BE- 1 + DIGHT verb.]
Equip, apparel, bedeck.