Both Uses of
assault
in
Macbeth
- No sooner justice had, with valor armed,
Compelled these skipping kerns to trust their heels,
But the Norweyan lord, surveying vantage,
With furbished arms and new supplies of men,
Began a fresh assault.p. 11.3 *assault = attackeditor's notes: This could be paraphrased as: "As soon as we bravely forced the Irish soldiers to run, the Norwegian king saw what happened and attacked us with fresh men and arms."
- Assaults Banquo.
p. 97.7assaults = attacks
Definition:
to attack someone or something physically or verbally; or to threaten violence