adaunt
English
Etymology
From Middle English adaunten, from Old French adanter, adonter, later addomter, from a- + danter.
Verb
adaunt (third-person singular simple present adaunts, present participle adaunting, simple past and past participle adaunted)
- (transitive, obsolete) To subdue.
- Skelton
- Adaunted the rage of a lyon savage.
- Skelton
References
- adaunt in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.