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▪ I. eterne, a. Obs. exc. arch. (poet.)|iːˈtɜːn|
Also 6–9 etern, 7–9 ætern(e.
[a. OF. eterne, ad. L. ætern-us, for æviternus, f. ævum age.]
1. = eternal a.
c1366Chaucer A.B.C. 56 To stink eterne he wol my gost exyle. c1374― Boeth. v. vi. 171 Þe comune iugement of alle creatures resonables than is þis þat god is eterne. 1413Lydg. Pilgr. Sowle v. ix. (1483) 100 By the kynge eterne the raunson fully shalle be payd for man. 1423Jas. I. Kingis Q. cvii, The effectis of my bemes schene Has thaire aspectis by ordynance eterne. c1470Harding Chron. cxv. xi, Saynt Edmonde..dyed, and made his fare To blysse eterne. 1534Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) K vij b, Other thynges I fynd in the saied annales worthie of etern memorie. 1605Shakes. Macb. iii. ii. 38 Banquo and his Fleans liues. But in them, Natures Coppie's not eterne. 1647H. More Song of Soul i. ii. lii, Straight he to higher pearch, like bird in cage, Did skip, and sang of etern Destiny. 1683E. Hooker Pref. Pordage's Mystic Div. 101 An ætern Beeing of Beeings. 1773J. Ross Fratricide (MS.) vi. 281 On him shall fall Retaliation sevenfold and eterne. 1820Keats Hyperion i. 117 Open thine eyes eterne. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh iii. 754 An individualism of the Infinite, Eterne, intense, profuse. 1877M. Arnold Balder Dead 89 The prophetesses, who by rite eterne On Frea's hearth feed high the sacred fire.
2. absol.
†a. In phrase fro eterne (= L. ab æterno), from eternity (obs.).
b. the eterne: that which is eternal.
c. the Eterne: the Eternal, God.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. v. ii. 153 Þe deuyne purueaunce..þat alle þinges byholdeþ and seeþ fro eterne. 14..Circumcis. in Tundale's Vis. (1843) 91 The name of names sacryd from eterne. 1613W. Browne Brit. Past. i. iv, O thou Eterne! by whom all beings move. 1839–48Bailey Festus Proem (ed. 3) p. vi, And in the vast conditions of the eterne The possible, the probable.
†3. quasi-adv. Obs.
c1590Howers Blessed Virg. 97, I verily think and beleeve surely, That my Redeemer is eterne on live.
▪ II. † eˈterne, v. Obs. rare.
[f. eterne a.]
trans. To make eternal; to eternize.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. ii. Babilon, Whose happy Labours haue your laudes eterned. 1606Ibid. ii. iv. i. Trophies, O Verse right-worthy to bee ay eterned! ― Wks. (1621) 1118 Your name already is eterned In Memory's fair Temple. |