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Quotation dates: 1420-1599
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Gain-, Gayn-, Gan(e)stand, v. [Northern ME. gayn-stande (a 1340). Cf. Againstand v.]
1. tr. To stand against, resist, oppose.(a) ?1438 Alex. i. 1940.
Na strenth of men micht thame ganestand 1456 Hay II. 28/26.
To gaynstand all thame that settis thame for the distrublaunce of the pore peple c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace i. 268.
Part of thar ire me think we suld gaynstand c1475 Ib. x. 488.
For till kep fre that thow art gaynstandand c1515 Asloan MS I. 188/18.
Thai suld help thaim gif ony wald ganestand thaim to entre c1550 Rolland Court of Venus iv. 393.
Quhat causit me my brother to ganestand? 1567 Reg. Privy C. I. 567.
Myndand na thing ellis bot to ganestand his Hienes authoritie a1578 Pitsc. I. 69/19.
To gainstand thair enemies in France(b) c1420 Wynt. viii. x. (W).
How Johne the Bellioll … Ganestude King Edwardis bidding 1531 Bell. Boece II. 41.
He slew baith commonis and nobillis … that ganestude his command 1562-3 Winȝet II. 24/28.
Insafer the mair reddelie he gainstuid new inuentionis 1596 Dalr. II. 232/16.
Godly men … quha resisted and ganestud thair doengs(c) 1562-3 Winȝet I. 130/16.
Ȝe haif ay gainstand the Haly Spreit
b. To be repugnant to. a1578 Pitsc. I. 65/7.
It gainestude sum menis conscience
2. intr. To offer resistance; to be opposed (to something). 1456 Hay I. 200/2.
Law naturale has grauntit that privilege till all creature naturale, to gaynstand and resist to thair undoyng c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace vi. 361.
To this proffyr gaynstandand giff he be c1475 Ib. x. 781.
Lordis gaynstud, but all thai helpyt nocht 1482 Peebles B. Rec. 190.
With hayll and fre alection … , ilkaman be hys awn voce and nocht ane ganstandand a1500 Doug. King Hart 394.
All that ganestude he straik deid in the flure 1599 Glasgow Weavers 50 (see Gainstandar).
3. Nocht gainstandand, notwithstanding. (Cf. Againstandand.) 1456 Hay I. 119/27.
Nocht gaynstandand all thir argumentis 1456 Ib. 164/1.
All thir resouns nocht gaynstandand, I hald all the contrair 1456 Ib. 294/34.
Nocht gaynstandand, he did nocht Goddis bidding
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