adaunt

English

Etymology

From Middle English adaunten, from Old French adanter, adonter, later addomter, from a- +‎ danter.

Verb

adaunt (third-person singular simple present adaunts, present participle adaunting, simple past and past participle adaunted)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To subdue.
   • 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:

     He […] With myghty corrage
     Adauntid the rage
     Of a lyon savage; […]

References

• “adaunt”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.