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▪ I. † spight, pa. tense and pa. pple. Obs.
[prob. from an inf. *spicchen, = G. dial. spicken to prick, push.]
trans. Instigated, urged, stirred up.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 7 By þe worþynesse and ensaumple of so worþy writeris i-spiȝt and i-egged [L. provocatus]. Ibid. VII. 429 Robert..made [v.r. spiȝte; L. excitavit] meny Walsche men to rise aȝenst þe kyng.
▪ II. spight
obs. f. speight (woodpecker), spite n. and v. |