linquish

present singular third person linquishes · participle present linquishing · participle past linquished · past linquished

1. obsoleterareTo relinquish; to give up.

   For, shou'd you come before the Brume's abated / Th' Opime you'd linquish for the Macerated.

   1737, François Rabelais, “Book V”, in Peter Anthony Motteux, Sir Thomas Urquhart, transl., The Works of Mr. Francois Rabelais […] , volume 2, Navarre Society, published 1921, page 438

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   But now a while I linquiſh this conflict, / And paſſe beyond the ſeas without a backe[…]

   1591, Ludovico Ariosto, translated by Sir John Harington, Orlando Furioso, London: G. Miller, translation of original in Italian, published 1634, book XXXIX, stanza 18, page 326

   They pittie not their owne ſpirituall miſery how Satan deludes them of the Beniſſon; but are foggie, full of feſtiuitie, loth to linquiſh, like to languiſh, and illiterated[…]

   1595, B. H., The Glaſſe of Mans Folly […] , London: Thomas Creede