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obsessio

obsessio, a blocking up, be sieging, blockade

obsessĭo, ōnis, f. [obsideo],
  • a blocking up, besieging, encompassing, a blockade of a place (class.): obsessio templorum, Cic. Dom. 3, 5: militaris viae, id. Pis. 17, 40: castrorum, Suet. Caes. 58: obsessionem alicuius omittere, Caes. B. C. 3, 24 fin.

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