Vanquish
Verb
Indicative past, past participle and present participle: vanquished, vanquishing.
Pronunciation and accent: "væNkwIS
Etymology: from Old French vencus past participle and venquis preterit of veintre: vanquish. Veintre was a French verb from Latin vincere. Cf. French vainquis, still used as the past tense of vaincre, and the form que je vainquisse. (Walter Skeat). Etymological identity with French vaincre, Spanish vencer and Italian vincere.
Transitive uses:
1. (The subject being a human or other animal) to overpower (an opponent, antagonist, adversary) in a conflict, battle, fight; to disable (a person or other animal) from continuing to fight, combat or resist; to become victor over.
Synonyms: overcome, conquer, subdue, triumph over; defeat, rout (with a collective noun as object of the verb)
Antonyms: be vanquished, lose, surrender, capitulate, submit.
The Britons fought to the last; but they were vanquished with great slaughter, and the unhappy queen took poison.
Charles Dickens (A Child’s History)
One Sir Adam de Gourdon was the last dissatisfied knight in arms; but, the Prince vanquished him in single combat.
Charles Dickens (A Child’s History)
I have vanquished my foe.
Walter Scott (Ivanhoe)
"If lions could paint," […], "in the room of those pictures which exhibit men vanquishing lions, we should see lions feeding upon men."
Samuel Johnson (The Adventurer and Idler)
By consultation and deliberation and provident measures, by caution and by vigilance, I vanquished armies, and I reduced kingdoms to my authority.
Edmund Burke (Works)
[…] the Danish fleet was entirely vanquished and dispersed.
Edmund Burke (Works)
2. (Obsolete acceptation) to expel (a person) by vanquishment.
3. (Metaphorically) to overpower (a person) by other than violent means; to disable from continuing to dispute.
"That's true," I replied, vanquished by the Parson's logic.
George Augustus Sala (The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous)
I must not only regard myself as being in a very ridiculous position, but as being vanquished at all points. Will you allow me the privilege of remembering my enemy's name?
Charles Dickens (Hard Times)
There is a construction with the preposition of = in respect of.
4. (Metaphorically: with impersonal and incorporeal object) to suppress; to annihilate (a feeling, etc.).
There she turned away her sweet face, and vanquished an half-risen sigh.
Samuel Richardson (Clarissa)
Let us suppose this impossibility vanquished, and the fact ascertained that they agree only in a restrictive system as an antecedent, and industrial prosperity as a consequent.
John Stuart (A System of Logic)
5. (Obsolete acceptation) to win or gain (a battle, fight, combat, etc.); to become victorious in.
Intransitive use:
To be victorious; to gain a victory.
[…] they are first if they vanquish.
Walter Bagehot (The English Constitution)
English vocables derived from Latin vincere:
Vanquishable, vanquished, vanquisher, vanquishing (noun, adj.), vanquishment, victor, victorious, victoriously, victoriousness, victory, victoryless, victress, unvanquished, unvanquishable, convict (adj. noun, verb), convicting, convictable, convicted, conviction, convictional, convictionless, convictism, convictive, convictively, convictiveness, convictment, convince, convinced, convincedly, convincedness, convincement, convincer, convincible, convincing (participle and noun), convincingly, convincingness, invincible, invincibility, invincibleness, invincibly, vincible, vincibleness, vincibly. OTHER DICTIONARIES BY ESTEFALU:
