adaunt
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English adaunten, from Old French adanter, adonter, later addomter, from a- + danter.
Verb
editadaunt (third-person singular simple present adaunts, present participle adaunting, simple past and past participle adaunted)
- (transitive, obsolete) To subdue.
- 1523, John Skelton, A ryght delectable tratyse upon a goodly Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 349, lines 1299, 1302–1304:
- He […] With myghty corrage
Adauntid the rage
Of a lyon savage; […]
References
edit- “adaunt”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.