obteyn

English

Verb

obteyn (third-person singular simple present obteyns, present participle obteyning, simple past and past participle obteyned)

1. Obsolete form of obtain.
   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts viij:[20], folio clxv, verso:

     Then ſayde Peter vnto hym: Periſſh thou and thy money togedder. For thou weneſt that the gyfte of god maye be obteyned with money?

   • 1550, Edward Hall, “[The Troubleous Season of Kyng Henry the Sixt.] The .xxx. yere.”, in The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke, Beyng Long in Continuall Discension for the Croune of this Noble Realme, […], London: […] Rychard Grafton, […] [and Steven Mierdman], →OCLC, folio lxxxij, recto:

     The duke of Somerſet ſet furth this matter the more vehemently, be cauſe he knew perfitely, that the duke of Yorke dayly ſtudyed, howe to get the crowne, and obteyn the goueraunce, and to depoſe and deſtroy bothe the kynge and hym.

   • 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “The Preface to the Reader”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:

     The Saxons obteyning poſſeſsion of the lande, gouerned the ſame being deuided into ſundry kingdomes […]