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deign, v.|deɪn|
Forms: 3–7 deine, 4–5 deyne, dayne, 5–7 daigne, 6 digne, 6–7 dain(e, deigne, 7–8 daign, 6– deign.
[a. OF. degn-ier (3 sing. deigne), later deignier, deigner, from 14th c. daigner, = Pr. denhar, deinar, It. degnare:—L. dignāre, by-form of dignārī to deem worthy, think fit, f. dignus worthy.]
1. intr. To think it worthy of oneself (to do something); to think fit, vouchsafe, condescend.
c1314Guy Warw. (A.) 3464 Helman That deined fle for no man. 1340Ayenb. 196 Uolk..þet onworþeþ þe poure, and ne dayneþ naȝt to speke to ham. c1450Mirour Saluacioun 3518 Oure lorde godde..to become man deynyd. c1477Caxton Jason 114 He daigneth not to come. c1590Greene Fr. Bacon vi, Would he daine to wed a Countrie Lasse? 1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, iv. vii. 39 And all those friends, that deine to follow mee. 1667Milton P.L. v. 221 Raphael, the sociable Spirit, that deign'd To travel with Tobias. 1701Rowe Amb. Step-Moth. i. i. 349 Hardly daigning To be controll'd by his Imperious Mother. 1879M. Arnold Geo. Sand Mixed Ess. 328 [The] very dog will hardly deign to bark at you.
†b. impers. Obs.
1297R. Glouc. (1724) 557 Him ne deinede noȝt to ligge in þe castel by niȝte. 1340Ayenb. 76 Ham ne daynede naȝt to do zenne. c1374Chaucer Anel. & Arc. 181 That on her wo ne deyneth him not to thinke. a1400–50Alexander 830 Ne here to dwell with þi douce deynes me na langer.
†c. refl. Obs.
1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxxvi. 36 Quhilk deinȝeit him for our trespass to de. 1563Winȝet Wks. (1890) II. 42 He deinȝeit Him aluterlie to do this in deid.
2. trans. with simple obj.
a. To condescend to bestow or grant, to vouchsafe. (Now chiefly with reply, answer, in negative sentences.)
1589Greene Menaphon (Abr.) 36 Rather..than haue deigned her eyes on the face..of so lowe a peasant. 1605Shakes. Macb. i. ii. 60 Nor would we deigne him buriall of his men. 1622F. Markham Bk. Warre iv. ix. §6, I will not here daigne a recapitulation of the same. 1634W. Wood New Eng. Prosp., Ded. Note, I am confident you will daigne it your protection. 1825Southey Tale of Paraguay iii. xviii, A willing ear she well might deign. 1863Mrs. C. Clarke Shaks. Char. iii. 71 The spirit stalks away, deigning no reply.
†b. To condescend or vouchsafe to accept; to take or accept graciously. (The opposite of to disdain.) Obs.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 50 Those..who did not receive and intertaine my father..nor yet digned other Gentlemen of much worthinesse. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Jan. 63 Shee deignes not my good will, but doth reproue. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. i. iv. 63 Thy pallat then did daine The roughest Berry, on the rudest Hedge. 1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 255 The Lord dained him. 1661in Hickeringill Jamaica A iij, This Welcome-home..Thou wilt accept from me, And deign it to attend thy smoother Line.
†c. In same sense with of. (Cf. to accept of.) Obs. rare.
1589Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 51 Which if you shall vouch to deigne of, I shall be..glad of such accepted seruice.
†3. To treat (a person) as worthy of, to dignify (him) with. [= L. dignārī.] Obs.
1579Twyne Phisicke agst. Fort. ii. cxxxii. 341 a, [They] had lyen vnburied, had not their most deadly enimie dained them of a graue. 1591in De Foe Hist. Ch. Scot. Add. D (1844) 57/2 Will ye not daigne his Majesty with an Answer? 1648E. Boughen Geree's Case of Consc. 76 He daines them with this honour.
¶4. Short for dedain, disdain: see dain v. |