Middle English Dictionary Entry
haunten v.(1)
Entry Info
Forms | haunten v.(1) Also haunt, haunti, hant(en. P.ppl. i)haunted, i)hanted. |
Etymology | OF hanter |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To frequent (a place), visit often, resort to; ~ to (til, in); frequent (wakes, tournaments, brothels, etc.); ~ scole, attend school; -- also intr.; (b) to travel (a road); (c) to visit (a place); (d) in surnames.
Associated quotations
a
- c1300 SLeg.John (LdMisc 108)381 : Formest he gan haunti wakes.
- a1325(?a1300) Interl.CG (Add 23986)42 : Hic am a clerc yat hauntes scole.
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)11041 : Al þis time..sir edward..hauntede torneimens wiþ wel noble route.
- c1350 How GWife(1) (Em 106)160/50 : Þat tauerne hantet [vr. haunteth] Is þrift forsaket.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Dan.13.6 : These ofte hauntiden [L frequentabant] the hous of Joachym.
- c1390 Treat.Mass (Vrn)435 : Þer a Neddre hauntes.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.885 : Thilke harlotes..haunten bordels of thise fool wommen.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)169a/a : Many briddes and foules haunten þat place, and þere-fore þer ben many foulers þat liggen and setten nettes.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)224a/a : Been loueþ and haunteþ þe floures þerof.
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)1028 : Tauerne ys þe deuylys knyfe: Hyt sleþ þe, oþer soule or lyfe..Ȝyf þou haunte comunly þarto.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)13691 : Mont oliuet it es an hill Þat iesus hanted mikel till.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)4921 : A folk woneþ biside þoos..Þat haunteþ wildernesse and forestes.
- a1425(?c1350) Ywain (Glb E.9)1470 : Now may þow wele hante turnamentes.
- a1425(?c1375) NHom.(3) Leg.(Hrl 4196)11/29 : Sethen haunted he fast to hali kirk.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)6601 : For he..wole gon ydilly..To haunten other mennes table.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)1.pr.3.8 : I byholde my noryce, Philosophie, in whoos hous I hadde conversed and hauntyd fro my youthe.
- ?c1430(c1383) Wycl.Leaven Pharisees (Corp-C 296)23 : Þei..hanten tauernys of wyn and ale.
- c1450 Scrope Othea (Lngl 253)46 : Haunt thow the temple, and worchip in tyme The godesse of heven.
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)17 : Al bisynes which men don forto haunte scolis..þei holden remelyng aside fro þe riȝt wey.
- a1475(1450) Scrope DSP (Bod 943)246/6 : If thou haunte placis where thei speke not of God, thou schalt haue euyn the contrarie.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)269/19 : Here by this way hauntys a knyght that dystressis all ladyes and jantylwomen.
- c1475 Sln.4 Recipes in Rel.Ant.1 (Sln 4)324 : Take whete or other corne, and take juse of dwale and menche the corne theryn; and ley yt ther the byrdes hawnten.
- a1500 Consideryng effectually (Cmb Hh.4.12)76 : If I be a frere I may begge alway, Many diuerse townys frely for to hawnt.
- c1600(?c1395) PPl.Creed (Trin-C R.3.15)771 : Þey schulden nouȝt haunten her hous so homly on niȝtes.
b
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)33.8 : Mochel peple there was hawntynge that weye and that plas.
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)119 : The wey was nouht haunted [F hantee]; With oute mo Eue hadde gon it, and after here wente he.
c
- a1400 Usages Win.(Win-HRO W/A3/1)p.62 : Alle marchauntes of get, shep, oþer swyn, þat beth out of fraunchyse and haunteþ þe town [þey he ne] come but ones in þe ȝeer, so shulde þe selue custome.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)188 : Men visite and haunte..tho placis and tho ymagis.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)20.78 : It semede to Ony Marchawnt That theke plas dide Owht hawnt That Som Resteng place it hadde be.
d
- (1298) Pat.R.Edw.I380 : Adam Hauntwakes.
- (1316) Pat.R.Edw.II506 : James Hauntewak.
2.
(a) To stay in (a place); dwell in, live in; (b) ppl. haunted, full of people, inhabited.
Associated quotations
a
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)15742 : Iudas wel he kneu þe stede quar iesus was hauntand [Trin-C: hauntonde].
- a1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)1712 : He hauntyth now heuene halle.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)2963 : Hit were sittyng..& semly for wemen Þaire houses to haunt & holde hom with in.
- c1450(c1405) Mum & S.(2) (Add 41666)1071 : But haue þay hauntid þe hyve half yere to þende, Thay growen vnder gurdel gretter þan other.
- c1455 Spec.Miser.(Tak 32)963 : God yow grawnte ffor to bee of thee nvmbre of thoo That hevene to here home schall hawnte.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)985/32 : The other bone ys of a fyssh whych..hauntith the floode of Eufrate.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)73b/b : Be one goode kyng..all a contrey is I-worschiped & Idrawe, & I-hauntid [L frequentatur] also.
- a1425(c1384) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Ezek.19.13 : And now it is plauntid ouere in deseert, in loond not wayed, or not hauntid [L in terra invia], and thristie.
3.
(a) To visit (sb.), frequent the company of; also, come together, assemble; (b) to seek (sb. or sth.); pursue (game); seek to acquire (goods); (c) to resort to (sb., someone's body) for sexual intercourse, have intercourse with.
Associated quotations
a
- a1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)1122 : Envye, with Wrathe muste dryve to haunte Mankynde al-so.
- a1475(1450) Scrope DSP (Bod 943)4/19 : It longith to a king to enfourme his son..how he schuld loue & haunt his knight-hode [DSPhilos.: knyghtis] and how he schulde not suffre them, [etc.].
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)4729 : He mas heraud & heres to hant for þe nanes.
b
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)726 : He..bihete hir ȝiftes..þe heldest to bichaunte, Ȝong mannes loue for to haunte.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)4122 : Venyson..Slike as we haunt in þar holis with hunting in tymes.
- ?a1475 LDirige(2) (Dc 322)379 : In heuen though thow woldest me haunte, Yet there am I at thy correccioun.
- c1475(c1399) Mum & S.(1) (Cmb Ll.4.14)2.178 : Ther nas kyte ne krowe þat kareyne hantid, Þat he ne with his lynage ne louyd full sone.
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)56/14 : It semes also a kyng þat he haunte noght mekyl þe company of his subgitz, & namly of vnhonest persouns.
- a1500 Hilton ML (Roy 17.C.18)21/5 : Bodely wirkynge longith principally to worldely men or women, the which haunten leuefully worldely goodes.
c
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.1197 : Wyvis, maidenes, in þat companye..I-haunted ben and vsed at her lust.
- a1425 Arth.& M.(LinI 150)702 : He..hyȝhte hire boþe gold and fee..Þeo eldest maiden to enchaunte, Som ȝong monnes body for to haunte.
- ?a1425(?a1350) Castleford Chron.(Göt Hist 740)22104 : Alsone, lo, comes þis latheli geant Vnkinlie me to vse and hant.
4.
(a) To busy oneself with (an activity), engage in; practice (an art, a profession, trade, craft); take part in (wars, battles); ~ in; ~ armes (dedes of armes), engage in deeds of arms, follow the military profession; ~ enemites, engage in hostilities; (b) with inf.: to be in the habit of (doing sth.), be wont (to do sth.); (c) ~ to (in), to exercise (oneself, one's body) in (piety, martial deeds); (d) ben haunted, to be stirred or roused; ben haunted in, be occupied with (sth.), meditate upon; also, be tried by (temptations).
Associated quotations
a
- c1225(?c1200) HMaid.(Bod 34)22/351 : Vnseli horlinges..vnlaheliche hit [copulation] hantið [Tit: haunteð].
- c1225(?c1200) HMaid.(Bod 34)28/467 : Þeo þe fondið ham meast..heatieð þet ha hantið.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))1 Mac.7.26 : The kyng sent Nychanor..that was hauntynge enmytees [L qui erat inimicitias exercens] aȝeinus Yrael.
- c1390 Cato(1) (Vrn)549 : Haunte studie [F Le estudie haunteras], þauȝ þou haue Wel conceyued þi craft.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.780 : That oother marchandise that men haunten with fraude and trecherie and deceite with lesynges and false othes is cursed and dampnable.
- a1400 Cato(3) (Frf 14)175 : Haunte þou studying.
- a1400 Preste ne monke (Cleo B.2)133 : Þes frers haunten a dredful þing, Þat neuer shal come to gode endyng: O frer for eght or nyen shal syng.
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)16.197 : What manere mynstralcie..Hast þow vsed oþer haunted al þy lyf-tyme?
- (?a1419) Mem.Bk.York in Sur.Soc.120180 : It ys grauntyd to the forsayd gyrdelers, revettours, and all other that hauntes thaire crafte.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.3929 : Þat þei & þou shulen fele ful vnswete Ȝif ȝe contynewe and þe werris haunt.
- a1425(?c1350) Ywain (Glb E.9)1467 : Þarfore, sir, þou sal noght let To haunt armes in ilk cuntre.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)5.1556 : Every manere wight That haunteth armes oughte to biwaille The deth of hym that was so noble a knyght.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)5046 : For to delyt echon they drawe, That haunte this werk.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)5724 : They..haunte her craft for gret getyng.
- ?a1425(?a1350) Castleford Chron.(Göt Hist 740)21587 : We haf lifen in delices..And nane dedes of armes hauntes.
- ?c1430(c1400) Wycl.Curates (Corp-C 296)146 : Þei haunten strif & plee..for tyþes.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)231 : Hawntyn, or ofte vsyn: Frequento.
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)3904 : Of hunters he was hede, & hauntyd it ofte.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)16 : And I forwith ȝow all ettillis to schewe Of ane Emperoure þe aȝefullest þat euer armys hauntid.
- ?c1450(?a1400) Wycl.Clergy HP (Lamb 551)373 : Pharao..wille þat his prestis haue possessions, and hawnte þe tylynge of þe felde and not of þe soule.
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)1192 : A remedie is..The graunt Tribune..tech hem be moderaunte, To God deuout, and fait of werrys haunte.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)810/6 : Hit ys oure kynde to haunte armys and noble dedys.
- c1475(?c1451) Worcester Bk.Noblesse (Roy 18.B.22)4 : Ire, egrenesse, and feersnesse..is taken for a vertue and renomme of worship to alle tho that haunten armes.
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)110/6 : Wille þou noght haunte batailles, and putte þy lyf in auenture.
- c1500(?a1475) Ass.Gods (Trin-C R.3.19)875 : In hys werres he [Vertew] wold nat þey [Adryomancy, etc.] hauntyd.
b
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)12683 : Sua haunted he on knes to lij..Þat hes knes war bolnd.
- c1450 Capgr.St.Kath.(Arun 396)4.1223 : Al her gret trost now shal fro hem falle, With the whiche thei haunted her goddis for to calle.
c
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))1 Tim.4.7 : Haunte thi silf to pite [L exerce..teipsum ad pietatem].
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)prol.87 : He besyeth euere and ther-to is so fayn To hawnte his body in pleies marcyal.
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)1121 : The ton shal..haunte hym-self in Dedye marcyal.
d
- c1350 MPPsalter (Add 17376)118.15 : Y shal be haunted [L exercebor] in þy comaundement.
- c1350 MPPsalter (Add 17376)118.23 : Þin seruaunt..was haunted [vr. vsed] in þy riȝtynnges.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)18b/b : Whan god suffreþ hym [a devil], he takeþ a body of aier þat þe lif men be I-hauntid and waked to besynes by his doynge.
- a1500 Imit.Chr.(Dub 678)80/19 : Þou art haunted [L exercitatus] in diuerse temptacions and preued in many contrarioustes.
5.
(a) To practice (a vice, a sin, folly); (b) to practice (a virtue, righteousness, etc.); (c) to obey (a law), observe (a custom); (d) to obey or worship (a god); (e) of music: to follow (a course).
Associated quotations
a
- a1300 No more (Dgb 2)18 : For sothe i tel him mor þan wode þat hantit licherie.
- c1300 SLeg.Inf.Chr.(LdMisc 108)277 : Bote pruyte he hauntede euere faste.
- a1350 Of Rybaudȝ (Hrl 2253)13 : Þe harlotes bueth horlynges ant haunteþ þe plawe.
- a1325 SLeg.John (Corp-C 145)384 : He wax a [s]iutour of tauerne and hantede glotonie.
- (1357) Gaytr.LFCatech.(Yk-Borth R.I.11)94/534 : The third is yde[l]ship that ouer mikel is haunted, That makes men lathe to begyn any godededis.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Co.(Manly-Rickert)A.4392 : For sikerly a prentys reuelour That haunteth dys, ryot, or paramour, His maister shal it in his shoppe abye.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pard.(Manly-Rickert)C.464 : In Flaundres whilom was a compaignye Of yonge folk that haunteden folye.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.896 : The preest that haunteth deedly synne, he may be likned to the aungel of derknesse transformed in the aungel of light.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.1956 : Bot natheles it [Avarice] is nou haunted, And vertu changed into vice.
- a1400(c1300) NHom.(1) Knt.PW (Phys-E)p.139 : He haunted bathe dai and niht His okering.
- c1400(c1378) PPl.B (LdMisc 581)3.53 : Ȝe loue lordes þat lechery haunteþ.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)59a/a : Scurror: haunnte rybaudrye.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)7029 : Or if he be to leccherous, Or these that haunte symonye.
- ?c1430(c1400) Wycl.Satan & P.(Corp-C 296)269 : Þei preisen lesyngis for to beren vp þes veyn nouelries & haunte here lustis.
- c1450(c1350) Alex.& D.(Bod 264)988 : Ne we sitte in no sete þere sinne is yhanteþ.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)4021 : A progenie of pore men þat neuir pride hauntis.
- c1460(?c1400) Beryn (Nthld 55)2319 : Foly, I hauntid it evir.
- c1475 Earth(3) (Rwl F.32)22/74 : Thou erthe..Hauntist enuye and hate.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)70/16 : He shal mowe þe bettre haunte the toþer, where-in is his moste delite.
b
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)7490 : Þou batest wronge, þou hauntest riȝttes [LinI: ryȝt].
- c1400(?c1380) Patience (Nero A.10)15 : Þay ar happen also þat haunte mekenesse.
- a1425(a1400) PConsc.(Glb E.9 & Hrl 4196)6344 : Rightwysnes anely sal be haunted.
- a1456(1429) Lydg.Hen.VI Coron.Ballade (Trin-C R.3.20)73 : In alle þy werkis hauntyng rightwysnesse.
- ?c1430 Wycl.Stip.Ministr.(Corp-C 296)203 : Þis schulde make..synne be dispisid and forsaken, and vertues lovyd and hauntid.
- a1500(a1450) St.Robt.Knares.(Eg 3143)152 : They wouned in wyldernes And haunted full hegh halynesse.
c
- c1390 Cato(1) (Vrn)94 : Suche lawe as þou hast brouȝt And haunted hast bi-fore, Þou most hit mekely suffre.
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)569 : Þou hast synned, & aȝen went Þys yche fyrst comaundement; Þus seyþ þe lawe þat men hauntes.
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)851 : And þere men haunted þat custome lest, Falleþ oft tyme grete tempest.
d
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)49.190 : Mahownd and Iubiter..Appolyn And..Termagawnt, these fowre Goddis holiche ich hawnt.
e
- a1450 Treat.Music (Lnsd 763)264 : He must attende to þe plainsong..aftir þat þe plain-song hauntiþ his course eyþir in acutis fro Gsolreut a-boue to Gsolreut be-neþe..and yf þe plainsong haunt his course fro Gsolreut be-nethe down toward Are.
6.
To use (sth.), employ; exercise (power, authority, influence, a legal right).
Associated quotations
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ex.14.31 : Þei seein þe Egipciens deed..& þe grete honde þat þe lord hauntid [WB(2): vsid; L exercuerat] aȝeyns hem.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Mat.20.25 : Princis of heithen men ben lordis of hem and..hawnten power in to hem.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)2.482 : Forthi my wordes ofte I haunte Behynden hem, so as I dar, Wherof my ladi may be war.
- a1400(c1303) Mannyng HS (Hrl 1701)751 : Alle men þat hauntyn grete oþys, To helpe hem at nede, certys me loþys.
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)42 : Hure noble condicions..be so grete..in some hundes þat þer is no man þat maye leve it but he were a good skilful hunter and wel knowyng and þat [?read: haþ] I-haunted hem longe.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.1793 : And liche a knyȝt his force for to hante..he cast hym for to daunte Þe pompe of Grekis.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)2.pr.6.48 : But wher schal men fynden any man that mai exercen or haunten any ryght [L ius..exserere] upon another man, but oonly of his body, or elles upon thynges that ben lowere than the body, the whiche I clepe fortunous possessiouns?
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)103a/b : Maner of festnyng & confortyng and remollying be haunted as in oþer, bot þat it be splented.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)36/30 : It spedeþ noȝt..þat medicynes bryngyng in akyng be to moche vsed or haunted.
- c1425 Arderne Fistula (Sln 6)49/18 : Þe pacient..hauntyng or vsyng þe medycinez of ladiez, as it war by a moneþ, euermore had hymself worse.
- (1430) Astr.Cal.in Palaeog.Soc.ser.2.172b : In þe regyone of France, þis planete Mercury hawntyth specyaly hys power and influence, þis cawsyȝte þat Franchemene beyn in þere langage more facunde of hye wytte.
- a1475(1450) Scrope DSP (Bod 943)44/30 : Plato..haunted deligently the seyng of his predecessours in this konnyng.
- c1450(?a1422) Lydg.LOL (Dur-U Cosin V.2.16)4.394 : Make hem stonde abake Or thay haue power to haunte her cruell myght.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)50.1 : Therfor is this psalme mast hauntid [vr. vsede] in halykirke.
7.
(a) To do (sth.), carry out, execute, perform; perform (divine service), go on (pilgrimage); ~ blessinge, bless; ~ contek, make war; ~ office, perform a function; (b) ppl. haunted, repeated, frequent, numerous.
Associated quotations
a
- c1390 GGuy(2) (Vrn)300 : Hit is not I-now to a man to schriuen him..but ȝif he haunte his penaunce in werk.
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)12050 : Or þat þou do to teche him þan Blissing to haunt [Trin-C: vse] and not to bann.
- c1400 Brut-1333 (Rwl B.171)85/10 : Þe Geaunt made me to abide, to done and haunt his wille.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Gen.50.17 : Y beseche that thou forȝete the..malice which thei hauntiden [WB(1): wrouȝten; L exercuerunt] aȝens thee.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Esth.9.12 : Jewis han slayn fyue hundrid men in the citee of Susa, and othere ten sones of Aaman; hou grete sleyng gessist thou, that thei haunten in alle prouynces?
- a1425 NHom.(3) Leg.Suppl.Hrl.(Hrl 4196)95/258 : His craft he bad him with hir haunt.
- ?a1425(?a1350) Castleford Chron.(Göt Hist 740)26444 : Oþer ells sone he sulde him graunt On oswin kyng contek to haunt.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)1b/a : First a Cirurgien artificially wirching oweþ to consider what is þat worching which he oweþ for to haunt [L exercere] in mannesbody.
- c1425 Found.St.Barth.40/30 : Now hath vndircrept them necligence..that nethir heir the holy mysterys of my son be hawntid, nethir to me wounte praysyng of them be ȝeuyn.
- (c1434) Drury Wks.(CmbAdd 2830)78/110 : The sacrament of matrimonye excludyd dedly synne in þe werk of generacion' be-twyx man & woman, so þat þat xuld be dedly is but venyal quan it is devly hawntyd.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)2.196 : Now cometh a crafte is worthy to ben haunted.
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)399 : If men schulde haunte þe office of preising or of dispreising, þanking and of preier in moost fruyteful maner, it were wel doon þat þei maden her owen preier.
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)252 : Thouȝ it be leeful..forto haunte pilgrimagis.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)38.678 : This Ieawnt..here with me bataille gan hawnt.
- c1450 Capgr.St.Kath.(Arun 396)1.814 : She havnted hooly werkys be strengthe of þe spyryt.
- (c1454) Pecock Fol.(Roy 17.D.9)79/16 : Aftir þat he haþ hauntid bi leiser and processe of tyme suche werkis of meeknes, þer schal be gendrid in his wil a disposicioun, [etc.].
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)31a/b : Þat þe febilnesse of þe senewe þat is insufficient and to feble to haunten alle hise officis miȝte be amendid þoruȝ þe strenkþe & hardnesse of þe ligament.
- c1425(a1400) Wycl.Pseudo-F.(Dub 245)297 : Officials and freris haunten ofte þis craft amys, when..þei punysshen men bi peyne þat god approueþ not.
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)35/12 : To what purpos..ordeined god þe eukarist to be receivid and hauntid?
- a1500(a1450) St.Robt.Knares.(Eg 3143)68 : He..Bott dressed hym wyth deuocioune, Hauntand hympne and orysonne.
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- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)18a/b : Creber: þyk, hauntyng, bysy.
- c1425 Found.St.Barth.17/11 : Beholde..that this holy chirche..schyneth..rychessid with many relikys of Seyntes and bewtyfied with hawntid [L frequentissimis] and vsuall tokenys of celestiall vertu.
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- a1475 GLeg.Suppl.Aug.Cant.2 (Lamb 72)375/248 : After that he wax ful desolate and wantone of his speche and he infect the peple with iangelynge in the chirche and talkynge, so that his olde sykenesse hauntyd hym ayen bycause of his mysgydynge.
Note: Editor: "hauntyd: visited. MED haunten v.(1) does not record this sense in the context of illness."
Note: Cf. OED haunt, v., sense 5. a.
Note: New sense.