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† lenger, a. and adv. Obs.
[OE. lęngra, neut. and fem. lęngre:—OTeut. *laŋgizon-, compar. of long a.]
A. adj. Longer.
c900tr. Bæda's Hist. i. i. (1890) 26 Þis ealond hafað mycele lengran daᵹas on sumera..þonne ða suðdælas mid⁓ danᵹeardes. c1340Cursor M. 490 (Trin.) He fel wiþouten lenger abade [Cott. langer bade]. c1386Chaucer Prol. 330 Of his array telle I no lenger tale. a1450Knt. de la Tour (1868) 42 The parchemyn that he wrote in was shorte, and he plucked harde to have made it lengger with his tethe. c1450Merlin 110 The barouns hadde sente for hym that he sholde come with-oute lenger a-bidinge. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 100 b, We haue made this chapyter somwhat lenger than we entended. 1558Bury Wills (Camden) 152 My saide iiij children or the lenger lyver of them. 1561Norton & Sackv. Gorboduc iv. ii. (Shaks. Soc.) 136 Our present hande coulde staie no lenger tyme.
B. adv. Longer.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 139 Ðo ne mihte his holinesse ben no lengere for-hole. c1290Beket 219 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 113 Þis child wolde lengore gon to scole, ake is fader him nolde finde. c1340Cursor M. 3948 (Trin.) Iacob..So shal þi name no lenger be [Cott. Sal þou na langer hetten sua]. c1385Chaucer Anel. & Arc. 129 And euer the lenger she loued him tendirly. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 5296 Þe scottys þare na lenger duell. 1521Fisher Serm. agst. Luther Wks. (1876) 340 This persecucyon lenger continued than the other twayne. 1533More Answ. Poysoned Bk. Wks. 1047/1 These folke do not long to eate and drincke, to lyue the lenger, but long to liue, to eate and drincke the lenger. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. vii. 22 Why do ye lenger feed on loathed light?
b. Farther. rare—1.
c1425Found. St. Bartholomew's 10 An hospitall howse a litill lenger of from the chirche by hymself. |