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From: peterxpe...@hotmail.com (Peter)
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Subject: Slight?
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:03:23 +0100
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 by: Peter - Tue, 29 Jun 2021 14:03 UTC

May I ask you to read the first, short, paragraph of
http://www.castlewales.com/coch.html?
What does 'slighted' mean there?
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 by: Anton Shepelev - Tue, 29 Jun 2021 14:17 UTC

Peter:

> May I ask you to read the first, short, paragraph of
> http://www.castlewales.com/coch.html?
> What does 'slighted' mean there?

The relevant sentence is:

Evidence was found of the building having been deliber-
ately slighted by mining.

I think the meaning of `slighted' here is:

3. To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to
raze. [In this sense raze is generally used.]

Till Troy were by their brave hands rased,
They would not turn home. --Chapman.

( http://dict.org ) [1913 Webster]

If so, the action can hardly be unintentional...

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From: off...@REMOVETHISwhhvs.co.uk (HVS)
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 by: HVS - Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:29 UTC

On 29 Jun 2021, Anton Shepelev wrote

> Peter:
>
>> May I ask you to read the first, short, paragraph of
>> http://www.castlewales.com/coch.html?
>> What does 'slighted' mean there?
>
> The relevant sentence is:
>
> Evidence was found of the building having been deliber-
> ately slighted by mining.
>
> I think the meaning of `slighted' here is:
>
> 3. To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to
> raze. [In this sense raze is generally used.]
>
> Till Troy were by their brave hands rased,
> They would not turn home. --Chapman.
>
> ( http://dict.org ) [1913 Webster]
>
> If so, the action can hardly be unintentional...

It's found often in connection with the English civil war. Captured
forts and castles were frequently ordered to be slighted, which meant
that they were damaged or demolished to such an extent as to render
them undefendable.

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Cheers,
Harvey

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