distent
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Etymology[edit]
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Adjective[edit]
distent (comparative more distent, superlative most distent)
- distended
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Some others were new driven, and distent
Into great ingowes
- 1728, James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
- The North-east spends his rage; he now shut up
Within his iron cave, the effusive South
Warms the wide air, and o'er the void of heaven
Breathes the big clouds with vernal showers distent.
Noun[edit]
distent (countable and uncountable, plural distents)
- (obsolete) breadth
- 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC:
- […] shall yet be distended, one fourteenth part longer then the sayd entire Diameter; which addition of distent will conferre much to their Beauty, and detract but little from their Strength
References[edit]
- “distent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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distent