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Fortify v. t. (past & past part. fortified; pres. part. fortifying)

To add strength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack. "Timidity was fortified by pride." "Pride came to the aid of fancy, and both combined to fortify his resolution."

To strengthen and secure by forts or batteries, or by surrounding with a wall or ditch or other military works; to render defensible against an attack by hostile forces.

Fortify v. i. To raise defensive works.

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Etymology of 'Fortify'

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"Fortify" Quotes from Famous Books

... afterwards discovered, and before he touched the shores of the island he was overtaken by his successor. In the place of Liberius, the conspirator Artaban was raised from a prison to military honors; in the pious presumption, that gratitude would animate his valor and fortify his allegiance. Belisarius reposed in the shade of his laurels, but the command of the principal army was reserved for Germanus, [26] the emperor's nephew, whose rank and merit had been long depressed by the jealousy of the court. Theodora had injured him in the rights of a private citizen, the ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 4 • Edward Gibbon

... for the marine, and I have reason to think a considerable reinforcement will be sent early to the southward, and that agreeably to a proposition of Sir J. Amherst, the enemy means to occupy and fortify strongly a port near the month of Chesapeake Bay, from which with a strong garrison and a naval force, they hope to interrupt the navigation of the Bay, and by frequent incursions prevent the States of Maryland ...

— The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. IX • Various

... strong enough for offensive operations with any reasonable hope of success, and the commanding generals seem to have acted on the maxim that "discretion is the better part of valor." Both armies had been strongly reinforced, and the opposing generals did little else than fortify their positions and watch each other. A year passed in virtual inaction on both sides, except that the British carried on a series of devastating predatory raids in New England along the coast of Long Island Sound, ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XI • John Lord

... me, gentle Devil, save me, the stairs are fortify'd with Cannons and double Culverins; I'm pursu'd by a whole Regiment of arm'd Men! here's Gold, Gold in ...

— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. II • Aphra Behn

... which arose, and this became the chief occupation of her mind, distracting her thoughts from the one great cloud that hung over her memory. Indeed one of the foremost bulwarks her feelings erected to fortify her conscience against the temptations around, was the knowledge that she would have, though of course under seal of confession, to relate that terrible ...

— A Reputed Changeling • Charlotte M. Yonge

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