seduct
Middle English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin sēduct-, past-participle stem of sēdūcō.[1]
Verb
[edit]seduct
- (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 / […]
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[edit]References
[edit]- M[athew] T[ewart] Culley and F[rederick] J[ames] Furnivall, editors (1890), Caxton’s Eneydos, 1490, Englisht from the French Liure des Eneydes, 1483, London: Published for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner & Co., […] , page 185: “Seduct, vb. t. seduce, 97/14.”
- ^ James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “† Sedu·ct”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VIII, Part 2 (S–Sh), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 376, column 1: “f. L. sēduct-, ppl. stem of sēdūcĕre.”