Middle English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin sēduct-, past-participle stem of sēdūcō.[1]

Verb edit

seduct

  1. (hapax) to seduce
    • 1490, “How Eneas encyted the patrons & maysters of his shippes for to depart. Capitulum xxvijo.”, in William Caxton, transl., edited by M[athew] T[ewart] Culley and F[rederick] J[ames] Furnivall, Caxton’s Eneydos, 1490, Englisht from the French Liure des Eneydes, 1483, London: Published for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner & Co., [] , published 1890, page 97, lines 12–14:
      [] the false & euyl man eneas, that tratoursly hath mocked me, & fraudulently seducted / []
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Related terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “† Sedu·ct”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes VIII, Part 2 (S–Sh), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 376, column 1:f. L. sēduct-, ppl. stem of sēdūcĕre.