scanted
English edit
Verb edit
scanted
- simple past and past participle of scant
Adjective edit
scanted (comparative more scanted, superlative most scanted)
- (archaic) Diminished; restricted. [from 16th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Subdue desire, and bridle loose delight; / Use scanted diet, and forbeare your fill […]
- 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 67:
- " […] their generations are neither extinct nor scanted, but are as plentiful as any Creatures on the Land."