Meanings
verbadaunt (third-person singular simple present adaunts, present participle adaunting, simple past and past participle adaunted)
present singular third person adaunts · participle present adaunting · participle past adaunted · past adaunted
- obsoletetransitiveTo subdue.
He […] With myghty corrage Adauntid the rage Of a lyon savage; […]
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
Origin
- Old Frenchadanter
- Middle Englishadaunten
- Englishadaunt
From Middle English adaunten, from Old French adanter, adonter, later addomter, from a- + danter.
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