hauntn.

Brit.

/hɔːnt/,

/hɑːnt/, U.S.

/hɔnt/,

/hɑnt/

Forms: Also Middle English–1500s haunte, 1500s–1600s, 1900s hant.

Etymology: < haunt v.

a. Habit, wont, custom, usage. Now dialect.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun]

i-wunec888

wise971

gatec1175

lawc1175

manners?c1225

wone?c1225

usec1325

hauntc1330

use1340

rotec1350

consuetude1382

customancea1393

usancea1393

practicc1395

guisea1400

usagea1400

wonta1400

spacec1400

accustomancec1405

customheada1425

urec1425

wontsomenessc1425

accustomc1440

wonningc1440

practice1502

habitudec1598

habiture1598

habit1605

wonting1665

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 4730 Ilkaman after his auenaunt Made offrynge, as was his haunt.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 248 So grete evidencis of the feith..ben hadde in so greet haunt and vce.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. iv. 347 When once they haue got a haunt of such companies, and a habit of gaming.

1674 W. Temple Let. to Coventry in Wks. (1731) II. 307 'Tis hard for a Man to lose a good Haunt, or an ill Custom.

1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 79 Haunt, a habit. ‘He has a sad haunt on 't’, a fixed habit of doing so and so.

1894 Hetton-le-hole Gloss. at Hant ‘He has a nasty hant of doing that’.

†b. Habitual practice or use (of anything).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > practising habitually

hauntc1405

practicec1487

custom1526

exercise1551

accustomation1605

enurement1611

frequency1615

c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 449 Of clooth makynge she hadde swich an haunt [Camb. MS. hand] She passed hem of Ipres and of Gaunt.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 103 Summe to be avoutreris in greet haunt and contynuaunce.

1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid iv. Prol. 249 Eschew thine hant, and mynniss all thi mycht.

c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. xi. vii. f. 159^v/2 Yan wes not vsit sic hant of dyse & cartis, as ar now vsit.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. iii. 74 For their haunt and traficke of merchandise.

†2.

a. The act or practice of frequenting or habitually resorting to a place, etc.; resort. of great haunt: much frequented. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > haunting or resorting > [noun]

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hauntc1330

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resortc1425

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repairc1480

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frequentation1585

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frequent1631

frequency1642

frequentage1814

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 223 Of Axholm to þe Ile he scaped himself alon..þer he held his haunt.

c1345 Orpheo 295 Of game they fonde grete haunt.

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xvii. 94 A straw for þe stywes..And þey hadde non oþer haunt bote of poure peple!

1565–73 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Copiosus Urbs celebris & copiosa..a citie of great haunt and well peopled.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. i. 15 This our life exempt from publike haunt, Findes tongues in trees, bookes in the running brookes.

1712 J. Arbuthnot Law is Bottomless-pit vii. 12 John Bull..had got such a haunt about the Courts of Justice.

†b. Companionship, society, company. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > [noun]

ymonec888

i-mennessec1050

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fellowredc1230

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companyc1275

monec1300

conversationc1340

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affinity?c1400

companyingc1443

compernagea1500

frequentation?1520

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convoying1543

companionship1548

companyship1548

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haunt1552

community1570

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consociation1593

companionry1595

sodality1602

conversinga1610

converse1610

consorting1611

consociety1624

consociating1625

togetherness1656

association1659

consortiona1682

sociality1758

mixture1764

junction1783

consortation1796

conversancy1798

mingling1819

companionage1838

boon companionship1844

mateship1849

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Hawnte or felowshyp, familiaritas, frequentia.

1568 (?a1513) W. Dunbar in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 148 Sic hant of harlettis, with thame bayth nicht & day.

3. concrete. A place of frequent resort or usual abode; a resort, a habitation; the usual feeding-place of deer, game, fowls, etc.; often, a den or place frequented by the lower animals or by criminals.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > place of resort > [noun] > usual haunt

reseta1325

hauntc1330

walka1425

neighbourhood1637

topic1650

office1699

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 1753 In þat tyme wer here non hauntes Of no men bot of geauntes.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xi. xi. 396 Snowe is noyefull to wylde beestes; for he..sheweth and dyscoueryth theyr hauntes and steppes.

1556 R. Robinson tr. T. More Utopia (ed. 2) sig. Svii Me Utopie cleped Antiquitie, Voyde of haunte and herboroughe.

1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. i. 49 We talke here in the publike haunt of men.

1684 R. Howlett School Recreat. 145 To know the Haunts and Resorts of Fish, in which they are to be usually found.

1735 W. Somervile Chace ii. 261 From Brake to Brake she [a hare] flies, and visits all Her well-known Haunts.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. i. 120 This place being the usual haunt of the buccaneers and privateers.

1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands I. 345 One of the most noted haunts of the ancient highwaymen.

1855 Ld. Tennyson Brook in Maud & Other Poems 102 I come from haunts of coot and hern.

figurative.1606 Bp. J. Hall Heauen vpon Earth vii. 57 Sin where it hath got an haunt looketh for more.1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam cviii. 169 The feeble soul, a haunt of fears.

†4. (?) A topic, a subject of discussion. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > topic, subject-matter > [noun]

thingeOE

evenOE

questionc1225

purposec1350

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mattera1387

reasonc1390

substancea1393

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occasion1426

titlec1450

intentc1460

article1531

place1532

scope1549

subject1563

argumenta1568

string1583

matter subject1586

subject matter1587

qu.1608

haunt1622

seat1628

object matter1653

business1655

topic1728

locus1753

sub1779

ground1796

1622 J. Donne Serm. XV. Verse XX. Chap. Iudges 47 When some..poynts that beat upon that haunt, had been ventilated.

1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana 162 Ap. Claudius (still upon the old haunt) would have it [etc.].

1658 J. Harrington Prerogative Pop. Govt. ii. v. 81 But this..is not to come off from the haunt, but to run still upon the People in a common or publick capacity.

5. U.S. regional and English regional. A spirit supposed to haunt a place; a ghost. Also (occasionally) in wider use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [noun]

soulOE

huea1000

ghostOE

fantasyc1325

spiritc1350

phantomc1384

phantasmc1430

haunterc1440

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hag1538

spoorn1584

vizarda1591

life-in-death1593

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umbra1601

larve1603

spectre1605

spectrum1611

apparitiona1616

shadea1616

shapea1616

showa1616

idolum1619

larva1651

white hat?1693

zumbi1704

jumbie1764

duppy1774

waff1777

zombie1788

Wild Huntsman1796

spook1801

ghostie1810

hantua1811

preta1811

bodach1814

revenant1823

death-fetch1826

sowlth1829

haunt1843

night-bat1847

spectrality1850

thivish1852

beastie1867

ghost soul1869

barrow-wight1891

resurrect1892

waft1897

churel1901

comeback1908

1843 Winnemore & Reps Cudjo's Wild Hunt (song) 3 It am de hunt ob Cudjo dat nigger so bold.

1869 H. B. Stowe Oldtown Folks vi. 80 But this 'ere 's a regular haunt,..they both on 'em said that..they'd seen a figger of a man.

1878 M. Hunt Hazard of Die I. vi. 131 Our Cordy is terrible for being afeard o' haunts.

1902 Westm. Gaz. 5 Feb. 2/1 This is the ‘haunt’ that troubles all our minds, and, especially, that comes forth..when the question is of peace by arrangement.

1933 M. Emmons in B. A. Botkin Treasury Southern Folklore (1949) iii. ii. 540 One never knows when the most sociable of cats may turn out to be a witch or a ‘ha'nt’.

1934 B. A. Botkin in W. T. Couch Culture in South xxvi. 589 A Bible or a sharp object under the pillow will keep away both ‘hants’ and witches.

1935 Scribner's Mag. Feb. 121/2 Old Joe's daid an' gone But his hant blows de hawn.

1943 W. C. Hendricks Bundle of Trouble 98 Then the wife told the hant who her husband is, and the hant begun at the start and told it all over agin.

1952 W. R. Titterton in Columba Aug. 102/1 We had a haunt in our flat. Father Vincent came home with us that day, and blessed the place, and the haunt was no more.

1965 Malcolm X Autobiogr. i. 20 It was spooky, with ghosts and spirituals and ‘ha'nts’ seeming to be in the very atmosphere when finally we all came out of the church.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

hauntv.

Brit.

/hɔːnt/,

/hɑːnt/, U.S.

/hɔnt/,

/hɑnt/

Forms: Also Middle English haunten, Middle English hauntyn, hanten, Middle English–1500s haunte, Middle English–1600s hant(e, Middle English hawntyn.

Etymology: < French hante-r (12th cent. in Littré), of uncertain origin: see Diez, Littré, Hatzfeld & Darmesteter From the uncertainty of the derivation, it is not clear whether the earliest sense in French and English was to practise habitually (an action, etc.) or to frequent habitually (a place). The order here is therefore provisional.

I. transitive.

†1. To practise habitually, familiarly, or frequently. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > frequency > [verb (transitive)] > do or visit frequently

hauntc1230

c1230 Hali Meid. 25 Unseli horlinges unlaheliche hit haunteð in inwarde helle.

c1230 Hali Meid. 33 Þe nuten neauer hwat hit is & hatieð þat ha haunteð.

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 320 Þe kyng said..þe pape..haunted Maumetrie.

1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. Prol. 74 And leueþ hit to losels þat lecherie haunten.

c1375 Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. (1892) 601 Haunte studie, þauȝ þou haue Wel conceyued þi craft.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 214 Men woned forto haunte daili contemplacioun.

1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. lxxx^v His preceptis hant kepe and exercyse.

1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 64^v The honestie in deed I graunt, Is one good point a wife should haunt, To make hir husband thriue.

†2. To use or employ habitually or frequently; reflexive to use, accustom, or exercise oneself. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > do habitually [verb (reflexive)]

haunta1340

a1340 R. Rolle Psalter I. 1 Þerfor is þis psalme mast hauntid [v.r. vsede] in halykirke.

c1340 R. Rolle Prose Treat. (1866) 20 Men or women the which hauntene leuefully worldely goodes.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Exod. xiv. 31 The greet hoond that the Lord hauntide aȝens hem.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Tim. iv. 7 Haunte [L. exerce] thi silf to pite.

1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. xii How wyues and maydens in that companie..Haunted be, and used at theyr luste.

1588 H. Oldcastle & J. Mellis Briefe Instr. Accompts sig. Gj Diuers and sundry goldes.. which..yee may reduce into your vsuall money, such as you daily haunt.

1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Hant, to haunt, to accustom, as a pigeon to its dovecot.]

3. To resort to frequently or habitually; to frequent or be much about (a place).

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > haunting or resorting > haunt [verb (transitive)]

hauntc1290

usea1382

resortc1450

enhaunt1530

practise1553

frequent1555

dog1600

habituate1872

c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 413/381 Formest he gan haunti wakes.

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 534 Sir Edward..hauntede tornemiens with wel noble route.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Dan. xiii. 6 These ofte hauntiden the hous of Joachym.

c1394 P. Pl. Crede 106 We haunten none tauernes.

1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) lii. 201 Takyng a waye whiche was not moche haunted.

1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iii Hunne had haunted heretikes lectures by nighte long before.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 2963 Hit were..semly for wemen, Þaire houses to haunt & holde hom within.

a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) III. 17 The Town was hauntid with Shippes of diverse Nations.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. xxii. 59 b The Turks wives..delight at al times to haunt the bathes.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 49 Ye Nymphs that haunt the Mountains and the Plains.

1710 C. Whitworth Acct. Russia (1758) 12 The rest of the country to Astracan..is haunted by the Calmucks.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 459 She was the daughter of a poor Cavalier knight who haunted Whitehall.

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 46 It is difficult, unless you have haunted these seas, to realise the interest we take..there in currents.

4. To frequent the company of (a person), to associate with habitually; to ‘run after’. (Now chiefly transferred from 5b.)

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate with [verb (transitive)]

seeOE

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contract1548

to take with ——1562

associate1581

to have a saying toa1593

cope1594

sort1594

to take in1597

consort1600

herd1606

factionate1611

to keep company (with)a1616

accost1633

solder1641

converse1649

walk1650

consociate1653

coalite1734

to get with ——a1772

forgather1786

unionize1810

to go rounda1867

to mix in1870

cop1940

1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 19 Yf thou haue haunted eny felowe, and thou se hys companye is not couenable vnto the, spare it.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. ii. sig. B6 A man who for his hospitalitie is so much haunted, that no newes sturre, but comes to his eares.

1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits x. 130 The preacher..who hath the conditions of a perfect orator..is more haunted than he that wanteth them.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses (1817) III. 914 He [was] removed from Shrewsbury where he was much haunted by his party.

1735 J. Swift Author upon Himself in Wks. II. 345 A certain Doctor is observ'd of late, To haunt a certain Minister of State.

1890 G. Saintsbury Ess. 98 Rather given to haunting rich men.

5. transferred and figurative. Of unseen or immaterial visitants.

a. Of diseases (obsolete), memories, cares, feelings, thoughts: To visit frequently or habitually; to come up or present themselves as recurrent influences or impressions, esp. as causes of distraction or trouble; to pursue, molest.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > retain in the memory [verb (transitive)] > recur

haunt1576

1576 A. Fleming tr. Socrates in Panoplie Epist. 228 One that is haunted with a fever or quivering ague.

1576 A. Fleming tr. G. Macropedius in Panoplie Epist. 363 Heavinesse shall never haunt your heart, whiles your mind is marching with the Muses.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. ii. 122 Your beauty which did haunt me in my sleepe: To vndertake the death of all the world.

1615 J. Stephens Ess. & Characters (new ed.) 240 He is ever haunted with a blushing weakenesse.

1724 R. Welton Substance Christian Faith 469 He hath no secret guilt that haunts and doggs him.

1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. i. i. 9 Regret of another kind still seems to haunt you.

1864 A. Bain Senses & Intellect (ed. 2) ii. i. 349 A painful recollection will haunt a person through life.

b. esp. Of imaginary or spiritual beings, ghosts, etc.: To visit frequently and habitually with manifestations of their influence and presence, usually of a molesting kind. to be haunted: to be subject to the visits and molestation of disembodied spirits.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [verb (transitive)] > haunt

haunt1597

ghosta1616

sprighta1616

phantom1845

spook1883

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. ii. 154 Some haunted by the ghosts they haue deposed.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. i. 99 O monstrous! O strange! We are haunted. Pray masters: fly masters: helpe.

1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iii. ii. sig. F^v Bug-beares & spirits haunted him.

1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 312 They were told..how there was a Chamber haunted with spirits, and strangely molested with horrible rumblings.

a1679 Earl of Orrery Herod the Great (1694) iii. 25 My Ghost shall haunt thee out in every place.

1722 W. Sewel Hist. Quakers (1795) I. iv. 244 It was much talked of, that spirits haunted this dungeon, and walked there.

1846 E. Bulwer-Lytton Lucretia II. ii. x. 296 We need not that boy's ghost amongst those who haunt us.

1874 J. Thomson City of Dreadful Night (1880) vii. 21 Phantoms haunt those shadowy streets.

II. intransitive.

†6. To be wont or accustomed. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > act habitually [verb (intransitive)] > be accustomed to do something

willeOE

wonc1000

haunta1400

customc1450

accustomc1475

use1533

wonta1547

practise1582

want1627

observea1629

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12683 Sua haunted he on knes to lij.

c1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine iv. 1223 Al her gret trost..With þe whiche thei haunted her goddis for to calle.

c1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) iv. 33 Thocht bruckill wemen hantis In lust to leid thair lyvis.

7. To resort habitually; to stay or remain usually (in a place); to associate (with a person). Now usually said of the lower animals.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > haunting or resorting > haunt or resort [verb (intransitive)]

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haunta1375

repaira1393

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abraid?a1439

accustomc1475

use1488

frequent1577

howff1808

society > society and the community > social relations > have social communication [verb (intransitive)]

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frequent1577

interdeal1609

intercommune1828

a1375 Lay Folks Mass Bk. App. iv. 439 Þer a Neddre hauntes.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 15742 Iudas wel he kneu þe stede quar iesus was hauntand.

1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde i. xiv. 47 (Promp. Parv.) It is good for to haunte amonge the vertuous men.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) John xi. f. cxxxviij^v Iesus..there haunted with his disciples.

1532–3 Act 24 Hen. VIII c. 10 All maner of choughes.. breedynge or hauntynge within or vppon anye the sayde manours.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 450 Where now fell Tartars hant, In wandring troopes.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. i. 97 I haue charg'd thee, not to haunt about my dores.

1627 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. 35 Be diligent to know with whom she loveth to haunt.

1767 G. White Let. 4 Nov. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 34 Some birds, haunting with the missel-thrushes.

1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun I. xvi. 180 A homeless dog, that haunted thereabouts.

†8. To have resort, betake oneself, go to. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > [verb (intransitive)]

nimeOE

becomec885

teec888

goeOE

i-goc900

lithec900

wendeOE

i-farec950

yongc950

to wend one's streetOE

fare971

i-wende971

shakeOE

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meteOE

wendOE

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teemc1275

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passa1375

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doa1400

fanda1400

haunta1400

snya1400

take?a1400

thrilla1400

trace?a1400

trinea1400

fangc1400

to make (also have) resortc1425

to make one's repair (to)c1425

resort1429

ayrec1440

havea1450

speer?c1450

rokec1475

wina1500

hent1508

persevere?1521

pursuec1540

rechec1540

yede1563

bing1567

march1568

to go one's ways1581

groyl1582

yode1587

sally1590

track1590

way1596

frame1609

trickle1629

recur1654

wag1684

fadge1694

haul1802

hike1809

to get around1849

riddle1856

bat1867

biff1923

truck1925

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13691 Mont oliuet it es an hill þat iesus hanted mikel till.

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. ccxxiii. [ccxix.] 695 There haunted into Turkey a marchaunt genouoy of the isle of Sio.

1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xv. 132 My counsell is expres, That to your wyfis ye hant.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. i. 28 To Lorett people haunt with naked feete.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	haunt
释义	hauntn. Brit. /hɔːnt/, /hɑːnt/, U.S. /hɔnt/, /hɑnt/ Forms: Also Middle English–1500s haunte, 1500s–1600s, 1900s hant. Etymology: < haunt v. 1. a. Habit, wont, custom, usage. Now dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] i-wunec888 wise971 gatec1175 lawc1175 manners?c1225 wone?c1225 usec1325 hauntc1330 use1340 rotec1350 consuetude1382 customancea1393 usancea1393 practicc1395 guisea1400 usagea1400 wonta1400 spacec1400 accustomancec1405 customheada1425 urec1425 wontsomenessc1425 accustomc1440 wonningc1440 practice1502 habitudec1598 habiture1598 habit1605 wonting1665 c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 4730 Ilkaman after his auenaunt Made offrynge, as was his haunt. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 248 So grete evidencis of the feith..ben hadde in so greet haunt and vce. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. iv. 347 When once they haue got a haunt of such companies, and a habit of gaming. 1674 W. Temple Let. to Coventry in Wks. (1731) II. 307 'Tis hard for a Man to lose a good Haunt, or an ill Custom. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 79 Haunt, a habit. ‘He has a sad haunt on 't’, a fixed habit of doing so and so. 1894 Hetton-le-hole Gloss. at Hant ‘He has a nasty hant of doing that’. †b. Habitual practice or use (of anything). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > practising habitually hauntc1405 practicec1487 custom1526 exercise1551 accustomation1605 enurement1611 frequency1615 c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 449 Of clooth makynge she hadde swich an haunt [Camb. MS. hand] She passed hem of Ipres and of Gaunt. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 103 Summe to be avoutreris in greet haunt and contynuaunce. 1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid iv. Prol. 249 Eschew thine hant, and mynniss all thi mycht. c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. xi. vii. f. 159^v/2 Yan wes not vsit sic hant of dyse & cartis, as ar now vsit. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. iii. 74 For their haunt and traficke of merchandise. †2. a. The act or practice of frequenting or habitually resorting to a place, etc.; resort. of great haunt: much frequented. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > haunting or resorting > [noun] sokenc1000 hauntc1330 hauntingc1400 resortc1425 resorting?a1439 recoursea1456 repairc1480 frequentinga1555 frequentation1585 frequentance1593 frequent1631 frequency1642 frequentage1814 c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 223 Of Axholm to þe Ile he scaped himself alon..þer he held his haunt. c1345 Orpheo 295 Of game they fonde grete haunt. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xvii. 94 A straw for þe stywes..And þey hadde non oþer haunt bote of poure peple! 1565–73 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Copiosus Urbs celebris & copiosa..a citie of great haunt and well peopled. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. i. 15 This our life exempt from publike haunt, Findes tongues in trees, bookes in the running brookes. View more context for this quotation 1712 J. Arbuthnot Law is Bottomless-pit vii. 12 John Bull..had got such a haunt about the Courts of Justice. †b. Companionship, society, company. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > [noun] ymonec888 i-mennessec1050 meanc1175 ferredc1200 fellowshipa1225 fellowredc1230 sameningc1230 companyc1275 monec1300 conversationc1340 meanness1340 affinity?c1400 companyingc1443 compernagea1500 frequentation?1520 society1529 convoying1543 companionship1548 companyship1548 combining1552 haunt1552 community1570 unition1584 consociation1593 companionry1595 sodality1602 conversinga1610 converse1610 consorting1611 consociety1624 consociating1625 togetherness1656 association1659 consortiona1682 sociality1758 mixture1764 junction1783 consortation1796 conversancy1798 mingling1819 companionage1838 boon companionship1844 mateship1849 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Hawnte or felowshyp, familiaritas, frequentia. 1568 (?a1513) W. Dunbar in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 148 Sic hant of harlettis, with thame bayth nicht & day. 3. concrete. A place of frequent resort or usual abode; a resort, a habitation; the usual feeding-place of deer, game, fowls, etc.; often, a den or place frequented by the lower animals or by criminals. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > place of resort > [noun] > usual haunt reseta1325 hauntc1330 walka1425 neighbourhood1637 topic1650 office1699 c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 1753 In þat tyme wer here non hauntes Of no men bot of geauntes. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xi. xi. 396 Snowe is noyefull to wylde beestes; for he..sheweth and dyscoueryth theyr hauntes and steppes. 1556 R. Robinson tr. T. More Utopia (ed. 2) sig. Svii Me Utopie cleped Antiquitie, Voyde of haunte and herboroughe. 1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. i. 49 We talke here in the publike haunt of men. View more context for this quotation 1684 R. Howlett School Recreat. 145 To know the Haunts and Resorts of Fish, in which they are to be usually found. 1735 W. Somervile Chace ii. 261 From Brake to Brake she [a hare] flies, and visits all Her well-known Haunts. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. i. 120 This place being the usual haunt of the buccaneers and privateers. 1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands I. 345 One of the most noted haunts of the ancient highwaymen. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Brook in Maud & Other Poems 102 I come from haunts of coot and hern. figurative.1606 Bp. J. Hall Heauen vpon Earth vii. 57 Sin where it hath got an haunt looketh for more.1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam cviii. 169 The feeble soul, a haunt of fears. View more context for this quotation †4. (?) A topic, a subject of discussion. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > topic, subject-matter > [noun] thingeOE evenOE questionc1225 purposec1350 themec1380 mattera1387 reasonc1390 substancea1393 chapter1393 occasion1426 titlec1450 intentc1460 article1531 place1532 scope1549 subject1563 argumenta1568 string1583 matter subject1586 subject matter1587 qu.1608 haunt1622 seat1628 object matter1653 business1655 topic1728 locus1753 sub1779 ground1796 1622 J. Donne Serm. XV. Verse XX. Chap. Iudges 47 When some..poynts that beat upon that haunt, had been ventilated. 1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana 162 Ap. Claudius (still upon the old haunt) would have it [etc.]. 1658 J. Harrington Prerogative Pop. Govt. ii. v. 81 But this..is not to come off from the haunt, but to run still upon the People in a common or publick capacity. 5. U.S. regional and English regional. A spirit supposed to haunt a place; a ghost. Also (occasionally) in wider use. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [noun] soulOE huea1000 ghostOE fantasyc1325 spiritc1350 phantomc1384 phantasmc1430 haunterc1440 shadowa1464 appearance1488 wraith1513 hag1538 spoorn1584 vizarda1591 life-in-death1593 phantasma1598 umbra1601 larve1603 spectre1605 spectrum1611 apparitiona1616 shadea1616 shapea1616 showa1616 idolum1619 larva1651 white hat?1693 zumbi1704 jumbie1764 duppy1774 waff1777 zombie1788 Wild Huntsman1796 spook1801 ghostie1810 hantua1811 preta1811 bodach1814 revenant1823 death-fetch1826 sowlth1829 haunt1843 night-bat1847 spectrality1850 thivish1852 beastie1867 ghost soul1869 barrow-wight1891 resurrect1892 waft1897 churel1901 comeback1908 1843 Winnemore & Reps Cudjo's Wild Hunt (song) 3 It am de hunt ob Cudjo dat nigger so bold. 1869 H. B. Stowe Oldtown Folks vi. 80 But this 'ere 's a regular haunt,..they both on 'em said that..they'd seen a figger of a man. 1878 M. Hunt Hazard of Die I. vi. 131 Our Cordy is terrible for being afeard o' haunts. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 5 Feb. 2/1 This is the ‘haunt’ that troubles all our minds, and, especially, that comes forth..when the question is of peace by arrangement. 1933 M. Emmons in B. A. Botkin Treasury Southern Folklore (1949) iii. ii. 540 One never knows when the most sociable of cats may turn out to be a witch or a ‘ha'nt’. 1934 B. A. Botkin in W. T. Couch Culture in South xxvi. 589 A Bible or a sharp object under the pillow will keep away both ‘hants’ and witches. 1935 Scribner's Mag. Feb. 121/2 Old Joe's daid an' gone But his hant blows de hawn. 1943 W. C. Hendricks Bundle of Trouble 98 Then the wife told the hant who her husband is, and the hant begun at the start and told it all over agin. 1952 W. R. Titterton in Columba Aug. 102/1 We had a haunt in our flat. Father Vincent came home with us that day, and blessed the place, and the haunt was no more. 1965 Malcolm X Autobiogr. i. 20 It was spooky, with ghosts and spirituals and ‘ha'nts’ seeming to be in the very atmosphere when finally we all came out of the church. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022). hauntv. Brit. /hɔːnt/, /hɑːnt/, U.S. /hɔnt/, /hɑnt/ Forms: Also Middle English haunten, Middle English hauntyn, hanten, Middle English–1500s haunte, Middle English–1600s hant(e, Middle English hawntyn. Etymology: < French hante-r (12th cent. in Littré), of uncertain origin: see Diez, Littré, Hatzfeld & Darmesteter From the uncertainty of the derivation, it is not clear whether the earliest sense in French and English was to practise habitually (an action, etc.) or to frequent habitually (a place). The order here is therefore provisional. I. transitive. †1. To practise habitually, familiarly, or frequently. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > [verb (transitive)] > do or visit frequently hauntc1230 c1230 Hali Meid. 25 Unseli horlinges unlaheliche hit haunteð in inwarde helle. c1230 Hali Meid. 33 Þe nuten neauer hwat hit is & hatieð þat ha haunteð. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 320 Þe kyng said..þe pape..haunted Maumetrie. 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. Prol. 74 And leueþ hit to losels þat lecherie haunten. c1375 Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. (1892) 601 Haunte studie, þauȝ þou haue Wel conceyued þi craft. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 214 Men woned forto haunte daili contemplacioun. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. lxxx^v His preceptis hant kepe and exercyse. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 64^v The honestie in deed I graunt, Is one good point a wife should haunt, To make hir husband thriue. †2. To use or employ habitually or frequently; reflexive to use, accustom, or exercise oneself. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > do habitually [verb (reflexive)] haunta1340 a1340 R. Rolle Psalter I. 1 Þerfor is þis psalme mast hauntid [v.r. vsede] in halykirke. c1340 R. Rolle Prose Treat. (1866) 20 Men or women the which hauntene leuefully worldely goodes. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Exod. xiv. 31 The greet hoond that the Lord hauntide aȝens hem. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Tim. iv. 7 Haunte [L. exerce] thi silf to pite. 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. xii How wyues and maydens in that companie..Haunted be, and used at theyr luste. 1588 H. Oldcastle & J. Mellis Briefe Instr. Accompts sig. Gj Diuers and sundry goldes.. which..yee may reduce into your vsuall money, such as you daily haunt. 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Hant, to haunt, to accustom, as a pigeon to its dovecot.] 3. To resort to frequently or habitually; to frequent or be much about (a place). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > haunting or resorting > haunt [verb (transitive)] hauntc1290 usea1382 resortc1450 enhaunt1530 practise1553 frequent1555 dog1600 habituate1872 c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 413/381 Formest he gan haunti wakes. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 534 Sir Edward..hauntede tornemiens with wel noble route. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Dan. xiii. 6 These ofte hauntiden the hous of Joachym. c1394 P. Pl. Crede 106 We haunten none tauernes. 1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) lii. 201 Takyng a waye whiche was not moche haunted. 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iii Hunne had haunted heretikes lectures by nighte long before. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 2963 Hit were..semly for wemen, Þaire houses to haunt & holde hom within. a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) III. 17 The Town was hauntid with Shippes of diverse Nations. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. xxii. 59 b The Turks wives..delight at al times to haunt the bathes. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 49 Ye Nymphs that haunt the Mountains and the Plains. View more context for this quotation 1710 C. Whitworth Acct. Russia (1758) 12 The rest of the country to Astracan..is haunted by the Calmucks. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 459 She was the daughter of a poor Cavalier knight who haunted Whitehall. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 46 It is difficult, unless you have haunted these seas, to realise the interest we take..there in currents. 4. To frequent the company of (a person), to associate with habitually; to ‘run after’. (Now chiefly transferred from 5b.) ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate with [verb (transitive)] seeOE drawc1275 mella1300 meeta1325 fellow1340 usec1384 conjoinc1386 joinc1390 knitc1400 accompany1461 enfellowship1470 frequent1477 haunt1477 mixa1513 encompanya1533 combinea1535 contract1548 to take with ——1562 associate1581 to have a saying toa1593 cope1594 sort1594 to take in1597 consort1600 herd1606 factionate1611 to keep company (with)a1616 accost1633 solder1641 converse1649 walk1650 consociate1653 coalite1734 to get with ——a1772 forgather1786 unionize1810 to go rounda1867 to mix in1870 cop1940 1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 19 Yf thou haue haunted eny felowe, and thou se hys companye is not couenable vnto the, spare it. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. ii. sig. B6 A man who for his hospitalitie is so much haunted, that no newes sturre, but comes to his eares. 1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits x. 130 The preacher..who hath the conditions of a perfect orator..is more haunted than he that wanteth them. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses (1817) III. 914 He [was] removed from Shrewsbury where he was much haunted by his party. 1735 J. Swift Author upon Himself in Wks. II. 345 A certain Doctor is observ'd of late, To haunt a certain Minister of State. 1890 G. Saintsbury Ess. 98 Rather given to haunting rich men. 5. transferred and figurative. Of unseen or immaterial visitants. a. Of diseases (obsolete), memories, cares, feelings, thoughts: To visit frequently or habitually; to come up or present themselves as recurrent influences or impressions, esp. as causes of distraction or trouble; to pursue, molest. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > retain in the memory [verb (transitive)] > recur haunt1576 1576 A. Fleming tr. Socrates in Panoplie Epist. 228 One that is haunted with a fever or quivering ague. 1576 A. Fleming tr. G. Macropedius in Panoplie Epist. 363 Heavinesse shall never haunt your heart, whiles your mind is marching with the Muses. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. ii. 122 Your beauty which did haunt me in my sleepe: To vndertake the death of all the world. View more context for this quotation 1615 J. Stephens Ess. & Characters (new ed.) 240 He is ever haunted with a blushing weakenesse. 1724 R. Welton Substance Christian Faith 469 He hath no secret guilt that haunts and doggs him. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. i. i. 9 Regret of another kind still seems to haunt you. 1864 A. Bain Senses & Intellect (ed. 2) ii. i. 349 A painful recollection will haunt a person through life. b. esp. Of imaginary or spiritual beings, ghosts, etc.: To visit frequently and habitually with manifestations of their influence and presence, usually of a molesting kind. to be haunted: to be subject to the visits and molestation of disembodied spirits. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [verb (transitive)] > haunt haunt1597 ghosta1616 sprighta1616 phantom1845 spook1883 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. ii. 154 Some haunted by the ghosts they haue deposed. View more context for this quotation 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. i. 99 O monstrous! O strange! We are haunted. Pray masters: fly masters: helpe. View more context for this quotation 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iii. ii. sig. F^v Bug-beares & spirits haunted him. 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 312 They were told..how there was a Chamber haunted with spirits, and strangely molested with horrible rumblings. a1679 Earl of Orrery Herod the Great (1694) iii. 25 My Ghost shall haunt thee out in every place. 1722 W. Sewel Hist. Quakers (1795) I. iv. 244 It was much talked of, that spirits haunted this dungeon, and walked there. 1846 E. Bulwer-Lytton Lucretia II. ii. x. 296 We need not that boy's ghost amongst those who haunt us. 1874 J. Thomson City of Dreadful Night (1880) vii. 21 Phantoms haunt those shadowy streets. II. intransitive. †6. To be wont or accustomed. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > act habitually [verb (intransitive)] > be accustomed to do something willeOE wonc1000 haunta1400 customc1450 accustomc1475 use1533 wonta1547 practise1582 want1627 observea1629 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12683 Sua haunted he on knes to lij. c1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine iv. 1223 Al her gret trost..With þe whiche thei haunted her goddis for to calle. c1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) iv. 33 Thocht bruckill wemen hantis In lust to leid thair lyvis. 7. To resort habitually; to stay or remain usually (in a place); to associate (with a person). Now usually said of the lower animals. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > haunting or resorting > haunt or resort [verb (intransitive)] floatc1315 haunta1375 repaira1393 resort1432 abraid?a1439 accustomc1475 use1488 frequent1577 howff1808 society > society and the community > social relations > have social communication [verb (intransitive)] commonc1350 communea1393 haunt1481 frequent1577 interdeal1609 intercommune1828 a1375 Lay Folks Mass Bk. App. iv. 439 Þer a Neddre hauntes. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 15742 Iudas wel he kneu þe stede quar iesus was hauntand. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde i. xiv. 47 (Promp. Parv.) It is good for to haunte amonge the vertuous men. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) John xi. f. cxxxviij^v Iesus..there haunted with his disciples. 1532–3 Act 24 Hen. VIII c. 10 All maner of choughes.. breedynge or hauntynge within or vppon anye the sayde manours. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 450 Where now fell Tartars hant, In wandring troopes. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. i. 97 I haue charg'd thee, not to haunt about my dores. View more context for this quotation 1627 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. 35 Be diligent to know with whom she loveth to haunt. 1767 G. White Let. 4 Nov. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 34 Some birds, haunting with the missel-thrushes. 1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun I. xvi. 180 A homeless dog, that haunted thereabouts. †8. To have resort, betake oneself, go to. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] nimeOE becomec885 teec888 goeOE i-goc900 lithec900 wendeOE i-farec950 yongc950 to wend one's streetOE fare971 i-wende971 shakeOE winda1000 meteOE wendOE strikec1175 seekc1200 wevec1200 drawa1225 stira1225 glidea1275 kenc1275 movec1275 teemc1275 tightc1275 till1297 chevec1300 strake13.. travelc1300 choosec1320 to choose one's gatea1325 journeyc1330 reachc1330 repairc1330 wisec1330 cairc1340 covera1375 dressa1375 passa1375 tenda1375 puta1382 proceedc1392 doa1400 fanda1400 haunta1400 snya1400 take?a1400 thrilla1400 trace?a1400 trinea1400 fangc1400 to make (also have) resortc1425 to make one's repair (to)c1425 resort1429 ayrec1440 havea1450 speer?c1450 rokec1475 wina1500 hent1508 persevere?1521 pursuec1540 rechec1540 yede1563 bing1567 march1568 to go one's ways1581 groyl1582 yode1587 sally1590 track1590 way1596 frame1609 trickle1629 recur1654 wag1684 fadge1694 haul1802 hike1809 to get around1849 riddle1856 bat1867 biff1923 truck1925 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13691 Mont oliuet it es an hill þat iesus hanted mikel till. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. ccxxiii. [ccxix.] 695 There haunted into Turkey a marchaunt genouoy of the isle of Sio. 1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xv. 132 My counsell is expres, That to your wyfis ye hant. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. i. 28 To Lorett people haunt with naked feete. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1330v.c1230
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