Embarkation
[,embɑː'keɪʃən] or [,ɛmbɑr'keʃən]
Definition
(n.) The act of putting or going on board of a vessel; as, the embarkation of troops.
(n.) That which is embarked; as, an embarkation of Jesuits.
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Examples
- Commence immediately the embarkation of your corps, or so much of it as there is transportation for. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- His embarkation was clandestine; and if we may credit a tale of the Princess Anna, he passed the hostile sea closely secreted in a coffin. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It appears to me highly important that Mr. Micawber should, from the hour of his embarkation, feel his position. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The re-embarkation was accomplished by the morning of the 27th. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Those are as fixed as fate; and my voyage is only now delayed until the weather shall permit my embarkation. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The embarkation below Grand Gulf took place at De Shroon's, Louisiana, six miles above Bruinsburg, Mississippi. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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