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† maintenant, adv. Obs.
Forms: 4 meigntenaunt, 5 meyn-, mayntenaunt(e, 6 manteynent, maintenaunt.
[a. OF. maintenant in the same sense (in mod.F. = now), f. main hand + tenant, pr. pple. of tenir to hold.]
At once, immediately.
13..K. Alis. 5302 That on lep on a lyoun, And to ground hym threw adoun, And hym astrangled meigntenaunt. a1400Arthur 383 [They] broute Arthour Meyntenaunt Euen byfore þe gyant. a1470Tiptoft Cæsar iv. (1530) 6 They delyvered mayntenaunte one parte and the remnaunt wyth in few dayes. a1548Hall Chron. (1809) 660 The Frenchmen..alighted as though they would geve assaut maintenant. 1592West 1st Pt. Symbol. §44 C, Euerie estate is either executed maintenant, or executorie by limitation of vse. 1598Child-Marriages 166, 2 packetes,..which were maintenaunt..deliuered to Mr. John Francis to be posted hens. |