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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Lent, a. [e.m.E. and late ME. lent(e (15th c.), F. lent, L. lentus.] Slow, lingering, long-drawn out.(1) c1590 J. Stewart 20/175. Ib. 77/153.
Vith ane voce maist sorroufull and lent a1658 Durham Blessedness Death (1713) 2.
A more lent and lingering death a1659 W. Guthrie Christian's Gt. Interest (1776) 81.
This work … is more sober and lent 1661 Baillie III. 433.
The last trick they have fallen on … is … to make factions in every craft … but this lent-way does no satisfie(2) 1639 Baillie I. 208.
Before we would be rosted with a lent-fyre by the hands of churchmen 1646-54 J. Hope Diary (1958) 157.
A copper panne sett upon a lent fyre 1677 Lauder Notices I. 143.
[Pollock] whom they [witches] rosted by a lent fyre with images of wax and clay(3) 1658 Baillie III. 368.
Mr. Durhame has keeped his chamber above these four moneths … of a lent feaver and defluction, that puts his life in great hazard a1686 Turner Mem. 203.
I found my deare wife, … sicke of a lent feaver
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