Middle English Dictionary Entry
estraunge adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | estraunge adj. |
| Etymology | From OF estrange, AF estraunge. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. straunǧe adj.
1.
(a) Haughty, reserved; (b) as noun: something external to the body, a foreign substance.
Associated quotations
a
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)1.1084 : Dede were his japes and his cruelte, His heighe port and his manere estraunge.
b
- a1484 De Retard.Senect.(Trin-C R.14.52)154/113 : And natural humydite defensed and dissolutes restored and estraunges defensed from the augment, consumpt, purged: than is it neede that natural heete be comforted and the vertu and strength relieved whiche was of the forsaide incomodites enfiebled.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Ed.gloss (De Retard.Senect.): "estraunges n.pl. 'external things, foreign substances'."
Note: Cf. OED estrange, adj. and n.