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starken, v.|ˈstɑːk(ə)n|
[f. stark a. + -en5.
The forms sturken, storken (Yorkshire dial.: see quot. 1862 in sense 1) represent a different though cognate word, a. ON. storkna, referred to under stark a.]
1. intr. = stark v. 1.
14..Pol., Rel., & L. Poems (1903) 253/6 [Signs of Death.] His nese shal sharpen, & his skyn shal starken. 1563–83Foxe A. & M. 1895/1 He..wyth the ryghte hande being somewhat starckned knocked vpon his brest softly. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 38 Which..was their nutrimental juice coagulated there, like the bloud starkn'd in the veins of dead Animals. 1862C. C. Robinson Dial. Leeds 420 Starken, Sturken, Storken, to stiffen. Boiled treacle or rendered fat ‘starkens’ as it cools. 1876T. S. Egan tr. Heine's Atta Troll 146 They now lie mute and like unto the dead, Starkened and cold.
2. trans. To make stark or inflexible.
1842Sir H. Taylor Edwin the Fair iv. iv. Wks. 1864 II. 103 If thy lust of kingly power Outbid thine other lusts, and starken thee In grasping of that shadow of a sceptre That still is left thee. |