bastille

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. özel isim A former fortress and prison in Paris, France, the storming of which in 1789 began the French Revolution.
2. isim Chiefly in French contexts: a bastion (“projecting part of a rampart or other fortification”) or tower of a castle; also, a fortified tower or other building; or a small citadel or fortress.

   “H' incounters Talgol, routs the Bear, / And takes the Fidler Prisoner; / Conveys him to enchanted Castle, / There shuts him fast in wooden Bastile.”

3. isim A jail or prison, especially one regarded as mistreating its prisoners.

   “―The devil it is! ſaid I—but I vvill go to ten thouſand Baſtiles firſt— […]”

4. isim Synonym of workhouse (“an institution for homeless poor people funded by the local parish, where the able-bodied were required to work”).
5. isim The fortified encampment of an army besieging a place; also, any of the buildings in such an encampment.

   “VVhen they ſhould have ſtood to it in field, and fought, then they fled back to their tends: vvhen they vvere to guard and defend their trench and rampart, they ſurrendered them to the enemy: good no vvhere, neither in battel nor in baſtil.”

6. fiil To confine (someone or something) in, or as if in, a bastille (noun sense 2.1) or prison; to imprison.

   “Inſtead of forging Chains for Foreigners, / Baſtile thy Tutor: Grandeur All thy Aim?”