Word Meanings - ENGARRISON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To garrison; to put in garrison, or to protect by a garrison. Bp. Hall.

Related words: (words related to ENGARRISON)

• PROTECT
  To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children. The gods of Greece protect you! Shak. Syn. -- To guard; shield; preserve. See Defend.
• PROTECTRESS; PROTECTRIX
  A woman who protects.
• PROTECTORIAL
  See PROTECTORAL
• PROTECTORLESS
  Having no protector; unprotected.
• PROTECTIVE
  Affording protection; sheltering; defensive. " The favor of a protective Providence." Feltham. Protective coloring , coloring which serves for the concealment and preservation of a living organism. Cf. Mimicry. Wallace. -- Protective tariff ,
• PROTECTIONIST
  One who favors protection. See Protection, 4.
• PROTECTIVENESS
  The quality or state of being protective. W. Pater.
• PROTECTIONISM
  The doctrine or policy of protectionists. See Protection, 4.
• PROTECTORSHIP
  , The office of a protector or regent; protectorate.
• PROTECTINGLY
  By way of protection; in a protective manner.
• PROTECTOR
  One having the care of the kingdom during the king's minority; a regent. Is it concluded he shall be protector ! Shak. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, defends or shields from injury, evil, oppression, etc.; a defender; a guardian; a patron.
• GARRISON
  A body of troops stationed in a fort or fortified town. A fortified place, in which troops are quartered for its security. In garrison, in the condition of a garrison; doing duty in a fort or as one of a garrison.
• PROTECTORAL
  Of or pertaining to a protector; protectorial; as, protectoral power.
• PROTECTORATE
  1. Government by a protector; -- applied especially to the government of England by Oliver Cromwell. 2. The authority assumed by a superior power over an inferior or a dependent one, whereby the former protects the latter from invasion and shares
• PROTECTION
  A theory, or a policy, of protecting the producers in a country from foreign competition in the home market by the imposition of such discriminating duties on goods of foreign production as will restrict or prevent their importation; -- opposed
• OVERGARRISON
  To garrison to excess.
• ENGARRISON
  To garrison; to put in garrison, or to protect by a garrison. Bp. Hall.
• AMERICAN PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION
  A secret organization in the United States, formed in Iowa in 1887, ostensibly for the protection of American institutions by keeping Roman Catholics out of public office. Abbrev. commonly to A.
• DISGARRISON
  To deprive of a garrison. Hewyt.