strengthyadj.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. xv. 11 Who lord is lyke to þe in streinþi þingis [a1425 L.V. stronge men; L. in fortibus]?

a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 5075 (MED) Strenthy men, and bond and fre, In caves þai wald þan hyde ilkan.

a1425 (?a1350) Gospel of Nicodemus (Galba) (1907) 1317 He es a strenkithi swayn.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xi. l. 570 Allace! My best brothir in warld that euir I had..My faith, my help, strenthiast in stour.

a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xxx. §4. 106 Nourewhare i fele me strenghti and sykere bot of the.

c1520 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1905) III. Apocal. xviii. 8 For God is strenthie [Wycl. strong], that sal deme hir.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xvii. 119 He vas strynthy ande auful in ane battel contrar the enemeis of alexander.

a1600 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 243 Thair was nane that mycht war him at na tyme bot he wan the lady frome thame all for he was verie puissant and strenthie on horsback.

1843 C. Harpur in Australasian Chron. 10 June 4/1 Something remaining,..an extension, that paining My spirit, yet made it more strengthy and free.

2006 G. Davis Prophetgandist 115 Christ's resurrection of the pure body Of this strengthy soul Denuding the scales on our eyes.

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 110 Gif hardynes or cowardis cum of a stark or strenthy corps.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. xii. 47 Lyke to the strengthy sangler, or the bore.

1568 G. Skeyne Breue Descriptioun Pest viii. sig. B8^v For as natural facultie, & it quhilk is callit animalis facultas, ar maist strenthy & best at eis, the vitale faculte becummis the mair feble.

a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (1946) 153b As at range of woddis or thik forestis, the beist maist strenthy and stark is sonest brocht to dede, [etc.].

1609 S. Grahame Anat. Humors f. 13 Because they who attends-thee, are as strengthie pillars of thy estate, and without them thou can not stand.

?a1642 A. Garden Theatre Sc. Kings (1709) 26 With strengthie strokes, and with a Stomack stowt, Thrise in thrie fights, the Britons bold thow brak.

1767 Hardyknute (Clerk's MS.) in T. Percy Reliques (ed. 2) II. i. 110 Right strengthy arms forfeebled grew.

1828 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 24 275 Look at him now, a straight and strengthy stripling..springing over rock-ledge after rock-ledge.

1851 G. Wheeler Rural Homes xiii. 209 Black or bronze are the coverings for iron—the grave, honest, strengthy old substance will only be contented with sober, unchanging negation of gaiety in hue.

1896 Daily Chron. 1 Sept. 10/6 6 active, useful, strengthy cart and van horses.

1913 E. P. Johnson Shagganappi 206 With a strengthy fling of his arm, he hurled the precious bag of registered mail over the rim of the precipice.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses 312 Then lifted he in his rude great brawny strengthy hands the medher of dark strong foamy ale.

1990 O. Barfield in J. C. Hunter & T. Kranidas Barfield Sampler (1993) 24 Like an old fisherman, I'll spread a mesh Well-stretched and wide, but strengthy to constrain From last escape the lively flapping flesh Of the soft carp.

2007 C. Q. Yarbro Borne in Blood i. i. 23 Surely one of your strengthy cart horses could make the journey?

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid viii. x. 19 Duke Tharcon, and the Tuscanis..intill a strenthy place Thayr palȝeonis all had plantit [L. tuta tenebant castra locis].

1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 47 The strenthis all, baith castell, tour and toun,..He hes gart big far strenthear agane.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 16 The Balie fortifiet all castellis in the Realme estemet strenthiest.

1689 True Representation Matters in Ireland 7 And not only were the Kings Garrisons, Forts, and Castles, well stored with them, but many Gentlemens houses that were strengthy..were likewise filled with their Numbers.

c1520 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1903) II. Heb. vi. 18 We haue strinthiest solace, that we fle togiddir to hald the hope that is put furth to vs.

1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. 127 This aduersite cumin to þe ciete maid þe actioun of tribunis mare strenthy þan afore.

1561 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 60 This tractate..micht be maid..in sentence fer mair strenthy and difficill to our aduersaris to mak anssuer thairto.

1563 J. Davidson Answer to Tractiue Kennedy in D. Laing Misc. Wodrow Soc. (1844) I. 208 Na examinatione can subvert the veritie, bot make it the mair strenthy and the mair manifest to the warlde.

1573 J. Tyrie Refut. Ansuer Knox To Rdr. †ij b So destitute of iugement..that we can nocht perceaue, quhat difference thair be betuix the simple and strenthie defence of ane iust caus, and the craftie coloring of ane lesing.

1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus i. f. 10 Lufe is sa perrellous, To all gude deid it is ane strenthie bar.

1656 R. Hollingworth Holy Ghost on Bench To Rdr. sig. A6^v This Godly, Learned and judicious Authour, who hath treated of the same things, almost in the same Method; and that in such a succinct and strengthy way.

1828 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 228/1 His strengthy muscular argumentative pamphlet, in reply to one attacking Sir Francis Burdett.

1871 Godey's Lady's Bk. May 475/1 They reply with arguments which are..both ‘lengthy’ and ‘strengthy’.

1917 Railroad Trainman Sept. 620/1 Before the hogger could frame a sufficiently strengthy reply, [etc.].

2000 D. L. Walker Pacific Destiny v. xxi. 376 Lawyer-editor John Louis O'Sullivan wrote a strengthy editorial favoring the annexation of Texas.