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Sdeign

Sdeign

,
Verb.
T.
To disdain.
[Obs.]
But either
sdeigns
with other to partake.
Spenser.

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sdeign

sdeign

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sdeign (third-person singular simple present sdeigns, present participle sdeigning, simple past and past participle sdeigned)

  1. (obsolete) To disdain. [16th-17th c.]
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
      Which when those knights beheld, with scornefull eye / They sdeigned such lascivious disport, / And loath'd the loose demeanure of that wanton sort.