Middle English Dictionary Entry
stēnen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | stēnen v. Also stene, (N) steinen; p. stenede, stende, (early SW or SWM) steanede; pl. stened(e(n, stenden, (error) sende; ppl. i)stened, stend, estened, i)stenet, istenud, (early SWM) isteanet. |
| Etymology | OE stǣnan |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. ofstenen v., stonen v.
1.
(a) To cast stones at (sb., an animal), stone; kill (sb.) by pelting with stones, execute by stoning; also, pelt (sb. with sth.); ~ with ston(es, ~ mid stones; ~ to (the) deth; (b) to be stoned; (c) ppl. stened, of streets: paved (with stones).
Associated quotations
a
- c1225(?c1200) St.Juliana (Bod 34)35/371 : Ich hit am þet makede sein iuhan þe baptiste be on heafdes bicoruen & seinte stephene isteanet.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)65/13 : Seinte stefne þet te stanes þet me sende him [Nero: stenede him mide; Cleo: steanede him wið; Tit: stanede him wið] & underueng ham gleadliche.
- a1275 Judas (Trin-C B.14.39)8 : Iudas, þou were wrþe me stende þe wid ston.
- c1300 SLeg.Magd.(2) (LdMisc 108)165 : Giwes..Seint steuene to deþe..stenden [Trin-C: steneden].
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)118/102 : Ha nolde nauȝt he were..y-iuged by þe lawe To by stend wyþ stone.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Lev.20.3 : Ȝif eny of his seed ȝeue to þe maumet of moloch..þe peple of þe loond shal stene [L lapidabit] hym.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)3.29 : Zacharias..was i-stened to deþe of kyng Ioas.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)292a/b : If þe wolf is y-stened, he takeþ heede of him þat þroweþ þe firste stoon.
- a1400 Pep.Gosp.(Pep 2498)55/4 : Moyses comaunded þat men schulden stene swich a womman to deþe.
- c1400 Aelred Inst.(1) (Vrn)37/478 : He þat is slow schal be stened to deþe wit stynkynde dung.
- ?a1425(c1350) Apollonius (Dc 216)85 : Þey stenede him with stone.
- c1425 Glo.Chron.A (Hrl 201)p.298 : Hii ladde hym in an place..& stenede hym wyþ stones.
- a1456(a1402) *Trev.Nicod.(Add 16165)98a : Oure lawe comaundeþe..he þat despyseþe god to beon esteened [vrr. ystenud; stoned] to þe deethe with strokes of stones.
- a1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)28/9 : Þay drowen hym out of þe cyte forto stenen hym to dethe.
- a1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)262/28 : He wrot all þe persecucyon þat Seynt Steven sufferet and how he was stenet to deth.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)10/7 : They ladde him oute withoute the cite and..stenyd hym.
- a1500(?a1450) GRom.(Hrl 7333)178 : Jerusalem! that sleist prophites & steynist hem..whi dost thow so?
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)12157 : Þai..with stonys steynyt hir to dethe.
b
- (1340) Ayenb.(Arun 57)213/4 : Yef god het..loki þane zeterday ine þe yealde laȝe..ane man to stene to-uore al þe uolke, [etc.].
c
- c1225(?c1200) St.Kath.(1) (Roy 17.A.27)87/768 : Constu bulden a bur inwið iþin heorte ah al abuten bitrumet wið a deorewurðe wal schinin..istenet euch strete mid deorewurðe stanes.