encroach

encroach englannista suomeksi

1. tunkeutua

0. Verbi

1. tunkeutua territory; loukata rights

2. tunkeutua

2. Substantiivi

encroach englanniksi

1. to seize, appropriate

2. to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory

3. 1579, Immeritô (w), ''(w): Conteyning Tvvelue Æglogues Proportionable to the Twelue Monethes. Entitled to the Noble and Vertuous Gentleman most Worthy of all Titles both of Learning and Cheualrie M. (w)'', London: Printed by Hugh Singleton, dwelling in Creede Lane neere vnto (w) at the signe of the gylden Tunne, and are there to be solde, (w) 606515406; republished in James Child|Francis James Child, editor, ''The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: The Text Carefully Revised, and Illustrated with Notes, Original and Selected by Francis J. Child: Five Volumes in Three'', volume III, Boston: Mifflin Harcourt|Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Publishing|The Riverside Press, Massachusetts|Cambridge, published 1855, (w) 793557671, page 406, lines 222–228:

Now stands the Brere like a lord alone, / Puffed up with pryde and vaine pleasaunce. / But all this glee had no continuaunce: / For eftsones winter gan to approche; / The blustering Boreas did encroche, / And beate upon the solitarie Brere; / For nowe no succoure was seene him nere.

4. {{quote-book|en|year=2005|author=Plato|title=Sophist|translator=Lesley Brown|page=252d

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5. to advance gradually beyond due limits

6. Encroachment.

7. {{quote-text|en|year=1805|author=Samuel Taylor Coleridge|title=What is Life?

8. {{quote-book|en|year=2002|author=Caroline Winterer|title=The Culture of Classicism|publisher=JHU Press|year_published=2002|page=116