Middle English Dictionary Entry
frǒunten v.
Entry Info
| Forms | frǒunten v. P. frunt. |
| Etymology | OF afronter clash, strike down, affront. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. afrounten.
1.
(a) To strike, hit, kick; (b) frounten to (unto), to rush against, charge (an opponent); ~ abak, to drive back (an opponent); (c) to fall, tumble down.
Associated quotations
a
- c1400(?c1380) Patience (Nero A.10)187 : Þe freke hym frunt wyth his fot.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)6923 : Hit [the sword] brake thurgh þe basnet..And frunt hym in þe fase a full fel wond.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)6984 : Humerius..ffrunt hym euyn in þe fase with a fyn arow.
b
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)6887 : Þe freke with a felle spere frunt vnto Ector.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)8327 : Polidamas..ffaght with hom felly, frunt hom abacke, Droff hom vnto dykes.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)8552 : He frunt to a fuerse kyng of frigies lond.
c
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)6890 : Ector Aurthewert hym Auntrid to hyt, Þat he frunt of hys fol flat to þe ground.