margent

plural margents

1. obsoletepoeticmargin; edge

   All the ancient Inscriptions are entertoilees with Snakes, e. g. as in the margent.

   1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 38

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   Nothing but this! Yes, as much love in rime As would be cramm'd up in a sheet of paper Writ o' both sides the leaf, margent and all, That he was fain to seal on Cupid's name.

   c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]

   Examine every married lineament, And see how one another lends content And what obscured in this fair volume lies Find written in the margent of his eyes.

   c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]

   Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell By slow Meander's margent green

   Comus

   1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC

present singular third person margents · participle present margenting · participle past margented · past margented

1. obsoletetransitiveTo note in the margin.