intrench

English

Verb

intrench (third-person singular simple present intrenches, present participle intrenching, simple past and past participle intrenched)

  1. Archaic form of entrench.
    • 1693, [John Locke], “§120”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:
      We are not to intrench upon truth in any conversation, but least of all with children.
    • 1836, Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, The American in England, page 269:
      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 […]
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