wontn.¹

Brit.

/wəʊnt/,

/wɒnt/, U.S.

/wɔnt/,

/wɑnt/,

/woʊnt/,

/wənt/

Forms: Also 1500s woont(e, wonte, Scottish wount.

Etymology: Early history and origin doubtful; perhaps arose from a conflation of two synonymous constructions, it is my wone (wone n.¹) to .., and I am wont (wont adj.) to.., whence it is my wont to.. (In view of the textual variants in the quot. from ‘Cursor Mundi’, this must be considered a dubious instance.) Johnson marks this word as ‘out of use’.

archaic.

a. Habitual or customary usage, custom, habit. use and wont: see use n. 7b; of (†in) wont, customary, usual.

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

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > in habitual or customary use [phrase] > as a habit or custom > usual or customary

ought and wontc1450

used and wonta1500

of (in) wont1548

of custom?a1556

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 13693 For þiþer ȝode he ai vmstunt, þar to prai ofte was his wont [Vesp. was he wont].

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 290/1 Wont or custome to an yvell thyng, amorse.1543 Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1880) II. 24 Payand zeirly..the sowm of xx^ty bollis..with all..vther dew seruice, vse and wont.1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. clxxxxvi^v After our old wont, we came together vpon our othe in the churche of S. Maturyne.1548 E. Gest Treat. againste Masse sig. L iv It was fyrst in wont that al the togethers assembled persones in y^e church did communicat eche day.1550 H. Latimer Serm. Stamford sig. B.ii They [sc. the Pharisees] wolde be ordred by olde wont, customes, forfathers.1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. iv. 7 Then it drawes neere the season, Wherein the spirit held his wont to walke. 1607 F. Beaumont Woman Hater iii. iv. sig. F2 Shee shall come in a white wastcoat, And—..And perhaps torne stockings, she hath left her old wount else.a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iii. i. 2 'Tis not his wont to be the hindmost man. 1668 S. Pepys Diary 10 Mar. (1976) IX. 111 As merry as that fellow Joyce could make us with his mad talking, after the old wont.1818 P. B. Shelley Julian & Maddalo 13 A narrow space of level sand..Where 'twas our wont to ride.1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. xi. 292 Her lodger..gave her, contrary to his wont, a signal to leave the room.1848 J. R. Lowell Fable for Critics (ed. 2) liii His wont Is to say very sharp things and do very blunt.1850 J. H. Newman Serm. Var. Occasions (1881) xii. 199 His commemoration is of daily wont in this neighbourhood.a1866 W. Whewell in J. M. Douglas Life & Corr. W. Whewell (1881) 563 Can I forget that this for thee too is Christmas, Christmas not as of wont—Christmas not of the earth?1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. vi. xxi. 385 They were..liable, beyond the common wont of mobs, to sudden gusts of feeling and impulse.1903 Times 14 July 11/2 Bosnian use and wont and Oriental ideas were taken into full consideration.1906 Athenæum 24 Nov. 665/2 The story is extravagant beyond the author's wont.in extended use.1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades vi. 118 My heart to alter from his wont it also doth disdaine.1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. iii. 55 When things naturall in that regard forget their ordinary naturall woont.1637 C. Dow Answer to H. Burton 128 Envy her selfe..would have lost her wont.a1854 H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets (1857) ix. 312 It is the wont of hollow things to echo.

b. in particularized use.

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1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 135^v Diogenes of a customable woonte auouched to bee a thynge muche more daungerous to falle in the handes of flaterers..then to lighte emong crowes.

?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter lxxviii. 226 To theyr old wontes: they dyd retyre, as sturdy bow in bent.

1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus iii. 3. 597 He is a foole still, he leaueth not his old wonts.

1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 1 Whoever..betakes himself to the scanning of bodies,..either as to their kinds of being or wonts of working.

1854 S. T. Dobell Balder xxiii. 103 She [sc. Morn] won of God That ever when she walketh in the world It shall be Eden. And around her come The happy wonts of early Paradise.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

won'tn.²

Brit.

/wəʊnt/, U.S.

/woʊnt/

Etymology: < won't , contracted form of will not : see will v.¹

a. colloquial. Refusal. Cf. don't n., shan't n.¹

ΚΠ

1902 Monthly Rev. Aug. 168 Already he was beginning to know the just value of a woman's won't, so he gave up the contest.

1911 B. Holland Life 8th Duke of Devonshire I. xiii. 293 Hartington's ‘won't’ was stronger than his ‘will’.

b. In hyphenated combinations with infinitives, forming nouns (occasionally adjectives), e.g. won't-learn, one who refuses to learn; won't-work; won't-wait, that won't wait.

1857 R. M. Ballantyne Coral Island xxiv People..who are sich born drivellin' won't-believers that they think [etc.].

1868 F. J. Furnivall in Babees Bk. (2002) i. Notes 200 John Russell lets off his won't-learns very easily.

1904 Westm. Gaz. 20 Feb. 7/1 The ‘unemployables’ and the ‘won't works’ are the recipients of most of the relief.

1909 Daily Chron. 8 Apr. 1/7 Won't-wait agitators.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

wontadj.

Brit.

/wəʊnt/,

/wɒnt/, U.S.

/wɔnt/,

/wɑnt/,

/woʊnt/,

/wənt/

Forms: α. Old English gewunod, -ad, -ed, Middle English iwuned, Middle English iwoned, Middle English ywoned, Middle English ywond(e (Middle English iwonyd, ywonyd); Middle English wuned, Middle English wonde, Middle English woned, wonyd, Middle English woond, 1600s won'd, wond, wouned. β. Middle English iwunet, iwonet, Middle English iwont (Middle English iwonte, ywont, Middle English ywonet); Middle English–1500s wunt, wount, wonte, (Middle English wonnt, wonþ, Scottish vont, Middle English wnt, Middle English won(n)et, w(o)unte, 1500s wante), Middle English–1600s woont(e, Middle English– wont.

Etymology: Old English gewunod , past participle of gewunian won v.

I. As past participle.

†1. Accustomed, used to, familiar with (a thing, practice, or condition). Obsolete.

ΘΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > accustomed, used, or wont

wontc888

haunteda1325

accustomed1429

consuetec1503

acquainted1572

frequent1575

occasioned1576

fain1596

wontlike1601

habited1605

habituate1606

wonted1611

practised1656

c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. i His mod..to þam woruldsælþum gewunod wæs.

c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 278 Næs þæt Israhela folc gewunod to hreawum flæsce.

c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 181 Ac hwanne hit [sc. the child] beð þarto wuned, hit wepeð þe lasse.

a1300 Cursor Mundi 28462 Til tauerne huse my-seluen was wont.

c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (1868) iv. pr. iv. 128 Þei han hire eyen so wont to derkenesse of erþely þinges.

c1386 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 283 She neuere was to swiche gestes woned.

a1400 Theophilus xxi, in Englische Studien 32 8 For I was wont to noble fare Among prynces of londes.

?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth lvii. f. 83 From his youth he was euer wont with hardnesse, hunger, thyrst, and labour.

a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 164 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 100 Cardinalis..With red hattis on hed In haile takynnyng Off yat deir dignite with worschipe ay wont.

(a) Conjugated with the verb ‘to be’, and const. infinitive (with or less frequently without to): Accustomed, used; in the habit of (doing something).

α.

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 143 Vre drihten wile cumen..and wile for-berne alle his fon and heom þet beoð iwunede uuel to done.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 12695 Ær wass he wunedd offte. To cumenn till þe flumm till himm.

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 1431 Gwider vr king of þis lond is truage athuld sone Of rome þat is eldore were iwoned [v.rr. ywond, ywonte, wonnte, wonte] to done.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 106 Al þet me wes ywoned byuore to louie.

c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame iii. 486 His clarioun..With which he wonde is to hiraude Hem that me list preised be.

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. vii. 143 Among wyues and wodewes ich am ywoned [v.rr. wonet to, wont to] sitte Yparroked in puwes.

a1400 Sir Beues (A.) 3776 Whan wer we woned be by-hinde?

c1450 Godstow Reg. 106 Iohn Waleys and Alice his wyf..quyteclaymed..ij. d. of yerely rente, the which they were I-wonyd to haue.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. 111/1 Lyke as he was woond to telle and reherce.

1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes iii. xiii. 196 Of suche thynges men are woned to vse.

β. a1240 Sawles Warde in Old Eng. Hom. I. 257 Ant al þat hird þat ha wes i wunet to dreaien efter hire.c1290 Beket 247 in S. Eng. Leg. 113 With more nobleie he rod i-nouȝ þane he was i-wonet to do.a1300 Cursor Mundi 28223 My breth it wald be til vnhoue Þat many man was wonto droue.13.. Bonaventura's Medit. 975 Sone, y was wunt þe swetly to wrappe.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4452 To comforth þam wel was he wont.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3922 A godd..þe quilk þat he was wonnt anure.c1440 Alphabet of Tales 292 He forgatt hur,..nor did hur nott wurshup as he was wunte to doo.a1450 J. Myrc Instr. to Par. Priests 1353 Art þow I-wont at lychwake Any pleyes for to make?c1470 in C. L. Kingsford Stonor Lett. & Papers (1919) I. 110 Servantes be not so delygent as þei were wonto bee.1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 220 That folk, that euer wes fre, And in fredome wount for to be.a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Fii He was wonte to boste brage and to brace.1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A5 Ay wont in desert darknes to remaine.1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 174 Your Ancient Conjurers were wont To make her from her Sphere dismount.a1771 T. Gray Agrippina in Poems (1775) 132 Legions, wont to stem With stubborn nerves the tide.1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake vi. 280 The lark was wont my matins ring.1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park III. x. 206 He might have more good qualities than she had been wont to suppose. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam viii. 10 Every pleasant spot In which we two were wont to meet. 1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey II. 350 The poet is wont to ignore the rivers when it suits his convenience to do so.

(b) predicated of things.

a1200 Moral Ode 57 Vre swinc and ure tilþe is ofte iwoned [v.rr. iwuned, wuned] to swinden.

1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 914 And so, grete tempest secede al, Þat on þeyr frutys was wnt to fal.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 85 Parthia..was i-woned to conteyne al þe lond of foure contrees, of Assyria, of Media, of Persida, and of Carmania.

c1400 Mandeville i. (1919) I. 5 Constantynoble þat was wont to be clept Bezanzon.

1444 Rolls of Parl. V. 114/1 Al manere of Wynes..were woned and used to pass through a vessell.

1566 in Southampton Court Leet Rec. (1905) I. i. 44 Where the Backe was wante to stonde.

1647 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) I. 359 The longer your letters were the more they were woont to please mee.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 123 Those looks That wont to be more chearful and serene.

1795 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity (ed. 3) II. iii. viii. 392 The prejudices which are wont to arise in our minds.

1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. vii. 127 Such a distinction is wont to be termed ‘inorganic’.

b. Conjugated with the verb ‘to have’: in had wont, had been accustomed. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1594 O. B. Questions Profitable Concernings 15 b One of his good dames..who had wont to bestow the best roome..in her house on him.

1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. xliv. 137 A narrow path, where cattel had wont to go through.

1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion i. 16 My Couch had wont to be upon curious Satin Quilts.

1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 239 The love-feasts that had wont to be between their Prince and them.

1870 J. Bruce Life Gideon vii. 120 He who had wont to come to the patriarchs..had actually come to him.

c. without infinitive.

c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 138 Þes..halga wer wæs gewunod þæt he wolde gan on niht to sæ.

c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 321 Ȝif lif of þise newe ordris be more medeful þen mannes lif was woned.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3520 Esau went for till hunt, A day, sum he was oft wunt.

c1480 (a1400) St. Matthew 68 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 192 Þai cuth..ger serpentis strik men ful sare, as befor-tyme wechis vont ware.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xii. l. 349 Inglismen thocht he tuk mar boundandly Than he was wount at ony tym befor.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cxviii[i]. 149 Quycken me acordinge as thou art wont.

1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso (1674) ii. xv. 164 He found her not to have that Grace and Majesty which she had wont.

1721 E. Young Revenge v. i He fought as he was wont, and four he slew.

1812 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Paradiso xvii. 52 The common cry, Will, as 'tis ever wont, affix the blame Unto the party injur'd.

1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xli. 409 All is going on as it was wont.

†II. attributive and as postmodifier.

a. = wonted adj. II. Obsolete.

ΘΠ

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

wonesomec1200

wonec1275

customable1381

customeda1382

useda1382

wonta1382

wonted1408

accustomed1429

vulgarc1430

usualc1444

famosec1449

customalc1450

accustomablec1475

accustomatea1513

frequent1531

accustomary1541

customary1574

frequented1586

consuetudinary1590

ordinary1605

consuetudinal1656

habitual1689

solent1694

regulation1803

usitate1885

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xlviii. 33 The tredere of the grape the wont myrie song shal not synge.

14.. T. Hoccleve Min. Poems 70/107 Lady! Of thy wont bontee, keepe alway the cours!

c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. vii. 73 Þou..turnest anoon ayen to þe wont iapes of þyne herte.

1535 G. Joye Apol. Tindale sig. C.j Aftir his wont disdaynful maner.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. iii. sig. O2^v So comes it now to Florimell by tourne,..To tast of ioy, and to wont pleasures to retourne.

b. ought and wont (Scottish): due and customary. (Cf. used and wont at used adj. Phrases.)

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > duty or obligation > [phrase] > due and customary

ought and wontc1450

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > in habitual or customary use [phrase] > as a habit or custom > usual or customary

ought and wontc1450

used and wonta1500

of (in) wont1548

of custom?a1556

c1450 Godstow Reg. 258 Yeldyng therof yerely to the chief lordis dewe and woned rentis.

1477 in Exch. Rolls Scot. IX. 102 All uthir dew service aucht and wount.

1535 Reg. Privy Seal Scot. II. 261/2 With uther service and dewiteis aucht and wonit alanerlie.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

wontv.

Brit.

/wəʊnt/,

/wɒnt/, U.S.

/wɔnt/,

/wɑnt/,

/woʊnt/,

/wənt/

Forms: Middle English wunte, wunton, wontyn, 1500s wonte, wount, Scottish past tense vont, 1500s–1600s woont, 1500s– wont; past tense 1500s– wonted, wont.

Etymology: < wont adj. or back-formation < wonted adj.

archaic.

a. transitive. To make (a person, etc.) accustomed or used to (occasionally with); = accustom v. 1, use v. 20.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > do habitually [verb (transitive)] > accustom (a person)

weanc960

wonc1175

to teach to1297

usec1300

usec1405

accustom1422

wontc1440

custom?c1450

enure1489

inure1489

induce1490

habituate1530

ure1530

usage1530

trade1539

to trade up1556

exercise1558

flesh1591

habit?1615

habitate1621

occasion1684

usen1715

usen1861

ethize1876

c1440 Alphabet of Tales 228 Þat he mott wunte þaim & make þaim perfite in wirkyng of wull.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 534/2 Wunton, or gretely to ȝeue an other vse and custome (P. wontyn or greatly to vse and custom), assuefacio, usito.

1534 Prymer in Eng. sig. Q.iv^v Wonte me to thy pathes.

1544 P. Betham tr. J. di Porcia Preceptes Warre ii. xxxii. sig. K v It shal not be vnprofitable to acquaynten and wount your horses..to suffer the sytter whyche is a gunner.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vii. xlvii. 882 And so offring her such meat as is most easie, you shall woont her to eate of the said hart.

1606 H. Peacham Art of Drawing 12 Before you..have woonted and made your hand ready in proportions of all sorts.

1656 J. Owen Of Mortification of Sinne 129 Wont thy heart to thoughts hereof.

c1682 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 312 When I have visited her and a little wonted her to the place, I'll come home.

1916 Contemp. Rev. June 689 The various defence and relief committees..have wonted people to the notion of organising the community.

b. reflexive (rarely intransitive for reflexive)

ΘΚΠ

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

wonc1175

usec1300

enhaunt1549

familiarize1593

wont1603

acclimatize1853

to play in1894

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1213 He..woonteth himselfe to keepe farre from any unjust and unlawfull taking of money.

1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket v. 256 So those, that in youth haue wonted themselues to the load of lesse sinnes.

1652 H. L'Estrange Americans No Iewes 18 To wont and accustome to the waters, they practising very much swimming.

1680 R. L'Estrange tr. Erasmus 20 Select Colloquies vi. 78 'Tis the best Course we can take to wont our selves to that which is good.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xvi. 275 We walked round the stones..to wont ourselves with their strange aspect.

†2. transitive. To use habitually. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

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

usec1300

maintain1384

observec1390

custom1392

practic?a1425

practise?c1430

frequent1485

to have in wonea1500

wont1530

trade1550

to make a practice of1722

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 784/1 It is no wysdome to wont a thyng that is nat honest.

a. intransitive. To be wont or accustomed; to be in the habit of (doing that which is expressed by the infinitive). Chiefly in past tense = used (use v. 21).

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

a1547 Earl of Surrey Poem in Add. MS. 17492 in Anglia XXIX. 337 Helpe to be walle the woffulle casse..off me that wontede to rejoyes the ffortwne offe my pleassante chyes.

a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 29 Flatteraris..spurit him to grettar tyrannie and oppressioun nor ony man vont to do befoir.

1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. I3 He determined..to poyson the streame, where this iolly Forester wonted to drink.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) i. ii. 14 Talbot is taken, whom we wont to feare.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. Ded. sig. A 4 And how often wont your euer blessed Father, graciously to peruse Lines of mine.

1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1487 Sons wont to nurse thir Parents in old age, Thou in old age car'st how to nurse thy Son.

a1700 C. Sedley Poet. Pieces in Wks. (1722) II. 10 To bouze old Wine, mad Pindar wonted.

1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Luke ii. 45 Had he not wonted to converse formerly with them, he had not now been sought amongst them.

1771 J. Beattie Minstrel: Bk. 1st xxxv. 18 Where Fays of yore their revels wont to keep.

1837 W. Wordsworth Cuckoo at Laverna 60 With beast and bird..He wont to hold companionship so free.

a1851 D. M. Moir Sc. Sabbath in Sonn. v With those he loved..He wont on Sabbath morn to cross the plain!

in extended use.1599 F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) Ded. 2 Not degeneratinge from youre former curtesye wontinge to accompanye all youre actions.1640 R. Baillie Ladensium Αὐτοκατάκρισις Pref. sig. B3 England wont not..to be so scant of faithfull witnesses.1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 11 His arms deform'd the roof they wont adorn.1833 T. Chalmers On Power of God (1835) II. vii. 46 In as far as this wont to consist of potatoes or grain.1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 43 He never can Bring back the glory that wont to be.1885 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche vii. xii. 83 The merry pipe, That wont to cheer the harvesting, is mute.

b. absol. (without infinitive.)

ΚΠ

1585 W. Lambarde in W. Camden Epist. (1691) 28 Sorrowing that I may not now, as I wonted, dwell in the meditation of the same things.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xi. sig. Z2^v The villein turn'd his face, (As wonts the Tartar..When as the Russian him in fight does chace).

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 28 The Earth left to be so fruitfull as it wont.

1594 R. Carew tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne v. 210 And with a semblant braue and nobellest, (As lightning wonts) he in his armour shines.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 286 I'le not exact hard Fines (as men shall woont).

a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. iv. 38 I beare it on my shoulders, as a begger woont her brat.

1836 J. Ruskin Marcolini ii. iii, in Wks. (1903) II. 494 Peace, he is here—Lo you, he comes not forward as he wont.

†4. To dwell habitually, have its habitat. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)]

wonc725

erdec893

siteOE

liveeOE

to make one's woningc960

through-wonOE

bigc1175

walkc1225

inwonea1300

lenda1300

lenga1300

lingera1300

erthec1300

stallc1315

lasta1325

lodge1362

habit?a1366

breeda1375

inhabitc1374

indwella1382

to have one's mansionc1385

to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400

keepc1400

repairc1400

to have (also hold, keep, make) one's residencec1405

to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425

winc1425

to make (one's) residence1433

resort1453

abidec1475

use1488

remaina1500

demur1523

to keep one's house1523

occupy1523

reside1523

enerdc1540

kennel1552

bower1596

to have (also hold, keep, make) residence1597

subsist1618

mansiona1638

tenant1650

fastena1657

hospitate1681

wont1692

stay1754

to hang out1811

home1832

habitate1866

1692 R. L'Estrange Fables i. clxvii. 140 The Kingfisher is a Solitary Bird, that Wonts commonly by the Water-side.

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n.¹a1400

n.²1857

adj.c888

v.c1440

单词	wont
释义	wontn.¹ Brit. /wəʊnt/, /wɒnt/, U.S. /wɔnt/, /wɑnt/, /woʊnt/, /wənt/ Forms: Also 1500s woont(e, wonte, Scottish wount. Etymology: Early history and origin doubtful; perhaps arose from a conflation of two synonymous constructions, it is my wone (wone n.¹) to .., and I am wont (wont adj.) to.., whence it is my wont to.. (In view of the textual variants in the quot. from ‘Cursor Mundi’, this must be considered a dubious instance.) Johnson marks this word as ‘out of use’. archaic. a. Habitual or customary usage, custom, habit. use and wont: see use n. 7b; of (†in) wont, customary, usual. 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 the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > in habitual or customary use [phrase] > as a habit or custom > usual or customary ought and wontc1450 used and wonta1500 of (in) wont1548 of custom?a1556 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 13693 For þiþer ȝode he ai vmstunt, þar to prai ofte was his wont [Vesp. was he wont]. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 290/1 Wont or custome to an yvell thyng, amorse.1543 Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1880) II. 24 Payand zeirly..the sowm of xx^ty bollis..with all..vther dew seruice, vse and wont.1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. clxxxxvi^v After our old wont, we came together vpon our othe in the churche of S. Maturyne.1548 E. Gest Treat. againste Masse sig. L iv It was fyrst in wont that al the togethers assembled persones in y^e church did communicat eche day.1550 H. Latimer Serm. Stamford sig. B.ii They [sc. the Pharisees] wolde be ordred by olde wont, customes, forfathers.1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. iv. 7 Then it drawes neere the season, Wherein the spirit held his wont to walke. View more context for this quotation1607 F. Beaumont Woman Hater iii. iv. sig. F2 Shee shall come in a white wastcoat, And—..And perhaps torne stockings, she hath left her old wount else.a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iii. i. 2 'Tis not his wont to be the hindmost man. View more context for this quotation1668 S. Pepys Diary 10 Mar. (1976) IX. 111 As merry as that fellow Joyce could make us with his mad talking, after the old wont.1818 P. B. Shelley Julian & Maddalo 13 A narrow space of level sand..Where 'twas our wont to ride.1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. xi. 292 Her lodger..gave her, contrary to his wont, a signal to leave the room.1848 J. R. Lowell Fable for Critics (ed. 2) liii His wont Is to say very sharp things and do very blunt.1850 J. H. Newman Serm. Var. Occasions (1881) xii. 199 His commemoration is of daily wont in this neighbourhood.a1866 W. Whewell in J. M. Douglas Life & Corr. W. Whewell (1881) 563 Can I forget that this for thee too is Christmas, Christmas not as of wont—Christmas not of the earth?1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. vi. xxi. 385 They were..liable, beyond the common wont of mobs, to sudden gusts of feeling and impulse.1903 Times 14 July 11/2 Bosnian use and wont and Oriental ideas were taken into full consideration.1906 Athenæum 24 Nov. 665/2 The story is extravagant beyond the author's wont.in extended use.1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades vi. 118 My heart to alter from his wont it also doth disdaine.1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. iii. 55 When things naturall in that regard forget their ordinary naturall woont.1637 C. Dow Answer to H. Burton 128 Envy her selfe..would have lost her wont.a1854 H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets (1857) ix. 312 It is the wont of hollow things to echo. b. in particularized use. ΚΠ 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 135^v Diogenes of a customable woonte auouched to bee a thynge muche more daungerous to falle in the handes of flaterers..then to lighte emong crowes. ?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter lxxviii. 226 To theyr old wontes: they dyd retyre, as sturdy bow in bent. 1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus iii. 3. 597 He is a foole still, he leaueth not his old wonts. 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 1 Whoever..betakes himself to the scanning of bodies,..either as to their kinds of being or wonts of working. 1854 S. T. Dobell Balder xxiii. 103 She [sc. Morn] won of God That ever when she walketh in the world It shall be Eden. And around her come The happy wonts of early Paradise. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021). won'tn.² Brit. /wəʊnt/, U.S. /woʊnt/ Etymology: < won't , contracted form of will not : see will v.¹ a. colloquial. Refusal. Cf. don't n., shan't n.¹ ΚΠ 1902 Monthly Rev. Aug. 168 Already he was beginning to know the just value of a woman's won't, so he gave up the contest. 1911 B. Holland Life 8th Duke of Devonshire I. xiii. 293 Hartington's ‘won't’ was stronger than his ‘will’. b. In hyphenated combinations with infinitives, forming nouns (occasionally adjectives), e.g. won't-learn, one who refuses to learn; won't-work; won't-wait, that won't wait. Π 1857 R. M. Ballantyne Coral Island xxiv People..who are sich born drivellin' won't-believers that they think [etc.]. 1868 F. J. Furnivall in Babees Bk. (2002) i. Notes 200 John Russell lets off his won't-learns very easily. 1904 Westm. Gaz. 20 Feb. 7/1 The ‘unemployables’ and the ‘won't works’ are the recipients of most of the relief. 1909 Daily Chron. 8 Apr. 1/7 Won't-wait agitators. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021). wontadj. Brit. /wəʊnt/, /wɒnt/, U.S. /wɔnt/, /wɑnt/, /woʊnt/, /wənt/ Forms: α. Old English gewunod, -ad, -ed, Middle English iwuned, Middle English iwoned, Middle English ywoned, Middle English ywond(e (Middle English iwonyd, ywonyd); Middle English wuned, Middle English wonde, Middle English woned, wonyd, Middle English woond, 1600s won'd, wond, wouned. β. Middle English iwunet, iwonet, Middle English iwont (Middle English iwonte, ywont, Middle English ywonet); Middle English–1500s wunt, wount, wonte, (Middle English wonnt, wonþ, Scottish vont, Middle English wnt, Middle English won(n)et, w(o)unte, 1500s wante), Middle English–1600s woont(e, Middle English– wont. Etymology: Old English gewunod , past participle of gewunian won v. I. As past participle. †1. Accustomed, used to, familiar with (a thing, practice, or condition). Obsolete. ΘΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > accustomed, used, or wont wontc888 haunteda1325 accustomed1429 consuetec1503 acquainted1572 frequent1575 occasioned1576 fain1596 wontlike1601 habited1605 habituate1606 wonted1611 practised1656 c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. i His mod..to þam woruldsælþum gewunod wæs. c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 278 Næs þæt Israhela folc gewunod to hreawum flæsce. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 181 Ac hwanne hit [sc. the child] beð þarto wuned, hit wepeð þe lasse. a1300 Cursor Mundi 28462 Til tauerne huse my-seluen was wont. c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (1868) iv. pr. iv. 128 Þei han hire eyen so wont to derkenesse of erþely þinges. c1386 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 283 She neuere was to swiche gestes woned. a1400 Theophilus xxi, in Englische Studien 32 8 For I was wont to noble fare Among prynces of londes. ?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth lvii. f. 83 From his youth he was euer wont with hardnesse, hunger, thyrst, and labour. a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 164 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 100 Cardinalis..With red hattis on hed In haile takynnyng Off yat deir dignite with worschipe ay wont. 2. a. (a) Conjugated with the verb ‘to be’, and const. infinitive (with or less frequently without to): Accustomed, used; in the habit of (doing something). Π α. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 143 Vre drihten wile cumen..and wile for-berne alle his fon and heom þet beoð iwunede uuel to done. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 12695 Ær wass he wunedd offte. To cumenn till þe flumm till himm. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 1431 Gwider vr king of þis lond is truage athuld sone Of rome þat is eldore were iwoned [v.rr. ywond, ywonte, wonnte, wonte] to done. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 106 Al þet me wes ywoned byuore to louie. c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame iii. 486 His clarioun..With which he wonde is to hiraude Hem that me list preised be. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. vii. 143 Among wyues and wodewes ich am ywoned [v.rr. wonet to, wont to] sitte Yparroked in puwes. a1400 Sir Beues (A.) 3776 Whan wer we woned be by-hinde? c1450 Godstow Reg. 106 Iohn Waleys and Alice his wyf..quyteclaymed..ij. d. of yerely rente, the which they were I-wonyd to haue. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. 111/1 Lyke as he was woond to telle and reherce. 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes iii. xiii. 196 Of suche thynges men are woned to vse. β. a1240 Sawles Warde in Old Eng. Hom. I. 257 Ant al þat hird þat ha wes i wunet to dreaien efter hire.c1290 Beket 247 in S. Eng. Leg. 113 With more nobleie he rod i-nouȝ þane he was i-wonet to do.a1300 Cursor Mundi 28223 My breth it wald be til vnhoue Þat many man was wonto droue.13.. Bonaventura's Medit. 975 Sone, y was wunt þe swetly to wrappe.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4452 To comforth þam wel was he wont.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3922 A godd..þe quilk þat he was wonnt anure.c1440 Alphabet of Tales 292 He forgatt hur,..nor did hur nott wurshup as he was wunte to doo.a1450 J. Myrc Instr. to Par. Priests 1353 Art þow I-wont at lychwake Any pleyes for to make?c1470 in C. L. Kingsford Stonor Lett. & Papers (1919) I. 110 Servantes be not so delygent as þei were wonto bee.1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 220 That folk, that euer wes fre, And in fredome wount for to be.a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Fii He was wonte to boste brage and to brace.1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A5 Ay wont in desert darknes to remaine.1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 174 Your Ancient Conjurers were wont To make her from her Sphere dismount.a1771 T. Gray Agrippina in Poems (1775) 132 Legions, wont to stem With stubborn nerves the tide.1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake vi. 280 The lark was wont my matins ring.1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park III. x. 206 He might have more good qualities than she had been wont to suppose. View more context for this quotation1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam viii. 10 Every pleasant spot In which we two were wont to meet. View more context for this quotation1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey II. 350 The poet is wont to ignore the rivers when it suits his convenience to do so. (b) predicated of things. Π a1200 Moral Ode 57 Vre swinc and ure tilþe is ofte iwoned [v.rr. iwuned, wuned] to swinden. 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 914 And so, grete tempest secede al, Þat on þeyr frutys was wnt to fal. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 85 Parthia..was i-woned to conteyne al þe lond of foure contrees, of Assyria, of Media, of Persida, and of Carmania. c1400 Mandeville i. (1919) I. 5 Constantynoble þat was wont to be clept Bezanzon. 1444 Rolls of Parl. V. 114/1 Al manere of Wynes..were woned and used to pass through a vessell. 1566 in Southampton Court Leet Rec. (1905) I. i. 44 Where the Backe was wante to stonde. 1647 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) I. 359 The longer your letters were the more they were woont to please mee. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 123 Those looks That wont to be more chearful and serene. View more context for this quotation 1795 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity (ed. 3) II. iii. viii. 392 The prejudices which are wont to arise in our minds. 1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. vii. 127 Such a distinction is wont to be termed ‘inorganic’. b. Conjugated with the verb ‘to have’: in had wont, had been accustomed. Now rare. ΚΠ 1594 O. B. Questions Profitable Concernings 15 b One of his good dames..who had wont to bestow the best roome..in her house on him. 1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. xliv. 137 A narrow path, where cattel had wont to go through. 1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion i. 16 My Couch had wont to be upon curious Satin Quilts. 1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 239 The love-feasts that had wont to be between their Prince and them. View more context for this quotation 1870 J. Bruce Life Gideon vii. 120 He who had wont to come to the patriarchs..had actually come to him. c. without infinitive. Π c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 138 Þes..halga wer wæs gewunod þæt he wolde gan on niht to sæ. c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 321 Ȝif lif of þise newe ordris be more medeful þen mannes lif was woned. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3520 Esau went for till hunt, A day, sum he was oft wunt. c1480 (a1400) St. Matthew 68 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 192 Þai cuth..ger serpentis strik men ful sare, as befor-tyme wechis vont ware. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xii. l. 349 Inglismen thocht he tuk mar boundandly Than he was wount at ony tym befor. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cxviii[i]. 149 Quycken me acordinge as thou art wont. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso (1674) ii. xv. 164 He found her not to have that Grace and Majesty which she had wont. 1721 E. Young Revenge v. i He fought as he was wont, and four he slew. 1812 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Paradiso xvii. 52 The common cry, Will, as 'tis ever wont, affix the blame Unto the party injur'd. 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xli. 409 All is going on as it was wont. †II. attributive and as postmodifier. 3. a. = wonted adj. II. Obsolete. ΘΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > usual or customary wonesomec1200 wonec1275 customable1381 customeda1382 useda1382 wonta1382 wonted1408 accustomed1429 vulgarc1430 usualc1444 famosec1449 customalc1450 accustomablec1475 accustomatea1513 frequent1531 accustomary1541 customary1574 frequented1586 consuetudinary1590 ordinary1605 consuetudinal1656 habitual1689 solent1694 regulation1803 usitate1885 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xlviii. 33 The tredere of the grape the wont myrie song shal not synge. 14.. T. Hoccleve Min. Poems 70/107 Lady! Of thy wont bontee, keepe alway the cours! c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. vii. 73 Þou..turnest anoon ayen to þe wont iapes of þyne herte. 1535 G. Joye Apol. Tindale sig. C.j Aftir his wont disdaynful maner. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. iii. sig. O2^v So comes it now to Florimell by tourne,..To tast of ioy, and to wont pleasures to retourne. View more context for this quotation b. ought and wont (Scottish): due and customary. (Cf. used and wont at used adj. Phrases.) ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > [phrase] > due and customary ought and wontc1450 the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > in habitual or customary use [phrase] > as a habit or custom > usual or customary ought and wontc1450 used and wonta1500 of (in) wont1548 of custom?a1556 c1450 Godstow Reg. 258 Yeldyng therof yerely to the chief lordis dewe and woned rentis. 1477 in Exch. Rolls Scot. IX. 102 All uthir dew service aucht and wount. 1535 Reg. Privy Seal Scot. II. 261/2 With uther service and dewiteis aucht and wonit alanerlie. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online March 2022). wontv. Brit. /wəʊnt/, /wɒnt/, U.S. /wɔnt/, /wɑnt/, /woʊnt/, /wənt/ Forms: Middle English wunte, wunton, wontyn, 1500s wonte, wount, Scottish past tense vont, 1500s–1600s woont, 1500s– wont; past tense 1500s– wonted, wont. Etymology: < wont adj. or back-formation < wonted adj. archaic. 1. a. transitive. To make (a person, etc.) accustomed or used to (occasionally with); = accustom v. 1, use v. 20. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > do habitually [verb (transitive)] > accustom (a person) weanc960 wonc1175 to teach to1297 usec1300 usec1405 accustom1422 wontc1440 custom?c1450 enure1489 inure1489 induce1490 habituate1530 ure1530 usage1530 trade1539 to trade up1556 exercise1558 flesh1591 habit?1615 habitate1621 occasion1684 usen1715 usen1861 ethize1876 c1440 Alphabet of Tales 228 Þat he mott wunte þaim & make þaim perfite in wirkyng of wull. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 534/2 Wunton, or gretely to ȝeue an other vse and custome (P. wontyn or greatly to vse and custom), assuefacio, usito. 1534 Prymer in Eng. sig. Q.iv^v Wonte me to thy pathes. 1544 P. Betham tr. J. di Porcia Preceptes Warre ii. xxxii. sig. K v It shal not be vnprofitable to acquaynten and wount your horses..to suffer the sytter whyche is a gunner. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vii. xlvii. 882 And so offring her such meat as is most easie, you shall woont her to eate of the said hart. 1606 H. Peacham Art of Drawing 12 Before you..have woonted and made your hand ready in proportions of all sorts. 1656 J. Owen Of Mortification of Sinne 129 Wont thy heart to thoughts hereof. c1682 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 312 When I have visited her and a little wonted her to the place, I'll come home. 1916 Contemp. Rev. June 689 The various defence and relief committees..have wonted people to the notion of organising the community. b. reflexive (rarely intransitive for reflexive) ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > do habitually [verb (reflexive)] > accustom oneself wonc1175 usec1300 enhaunt1549 familiarize1593 wont1603 acclimatize1853 to play in1894 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1213 He..woonteth himselfe to keepe farre from any unjust and unlawfull taking of money. 1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket v. 256 So those, that in youth haue wonted themselues to the load of lesse sinnes. 1652 H. L'Estrange Americans No Iewes 18 To wont and accustome to the waters, they practising very much swimming. 1680 R. L'Estrange tr. Erasmus 20 Select Colloquies vi. 78 'Tis the best Course we can take to wont our selves to that which is good. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xvi. 275 We walked round the stones..to wont ourselves with their strange aspect. †2. transitive. To use habitually. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > do habitually [verb (transitive)] usec1300 maintain1384 observec1390 custom1392 practic?a1425 practise?c1430 frequent1485 to have in wonea1500 wont1530 trade1550 to make a practice of1722 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 784/1 It is no wysdome to wont a thyng that is nat honest. 3. a. intransitive. To be wont or accustomed; to be in the habit of (doing that which is expressed by the infinitive). Chiefly in past tense = used (use v. 21). 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 a1547 Earl of Surrey Poem in Add. MS. 17492 in Anglia XXIX. 337 Helpe to be walle the woffulle casse..off me that wontede to rejoyes the ffortwne offe my pleassante chyes. a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 29 Flatteraris..spurit him to grettar tyrannie and oppressioun nor ony man vont to do befoir. 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. I3 He determined..to poyson the streame, where this iolly Forester wonted to drink. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) i. ii. 14 Talbot is taken, whom we wont to feare. View more context for this quotation 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. Ded. sig. A 4 And how often wont your euer blessed Father, graciously to peruse Lines of mine. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1487 Sons wont to nurse thir Parents in old age, Thou in old age car'st how to nurse thy Son. View more context for this quotation a1700 C. Sedley Poet. Pieces in Wks. (1722) II. 10 To bouze old Wine, mad Pindar wonted. 1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Luke ii. 45 Had he not wonted to converse formerly with them, he had not now been sought amongst them. 1771 J. Beattie Minstrel: Bk. 1st xxxv. 18 Where Fays of yore their revels wont to keep. 1837 W. Wordsworth Cuckoo at Laverna 60 With beast and bird..He wont to hold companionship so free. a1851 D. M. Moir Sc. Sabbath in Sonn. v With those he loved..He wont on Sabbath morn to cross the plain! in extended use.1599 F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) Ded. 2 Not degeneratinge from youre former curtesye wontinge to accompanye all youre actions.1640 R. Baillie Ladensium Αὐτοκατάκρισις Pref. sig. B3 England wont not..to be so scant of faithfull witnesses.1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 11 His arms deform'd the roof they wont adorn.1833 T. Chalmers On Power of God (1835) II. vii. 46 In as far as this wont to consist of potatoes or grain.1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 43 He never can Bring back the glory that wont to be.1885 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche vii. xii. 83 The merry pipe, That wont to cheer the harvesting, is mute. b. absol. (without infinitive.) ΚΠ 1585 W. Lambarde in W. Camden Epist. (1691) 28 Sorrowing that I may not now, as I wonted, dwell in the meditation of the same things. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xi. sig. Z2^v The villein turn'd his face, (As wonts the Tartar..When as the Russian him in fight does chace). 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 28 The Earth left to be so fruitfull as it wont. 1594 R. Carew tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne v. 210 And with a semblant braue and nobellest, (As lightning wonts) he in his armour shines. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 286 I'le not exact hard Fines (as men shall woont). a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. iv. 38 I beare it on my shoulders, as a begger woont her brat. View more context for this quotation 1836 J. Ruskin Marcolini ii. iii, in Wks. (1903) II. 494 Peace, he is here—Lo you, he comes not forward as he wont. †4. To dwell habitually, have its habitat. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] wonc725 erdec893 siteOE liveeOE to make one's woningc960 through-wonOE bigc1175 walkc1225 inwonea1300 lenda1300 lenga1300 lingera1300 erthec1300 stallc1315 lasta1325 lodge1362 habit?a1366 breeda1375 inhabitc1374 indwella1382 to have one's mansionc1385 to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400 keepc1400 repairc1400 to have (also hold, keep, make) one's residencec1405 to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425 winc1425 to make (one's) residence1433 resort1453 abidec1475 use1488 remaina1500 demur1523 to keep one's house1523 occupy1523 reside1523 enerdc1540 kennel1552 bower1596 to have (also hold, keep, make) residence1597 subsist1618 mansiona1638 tenant1650 fastena1657 hospitate1681 wont1692 stay1754 to hang out1811 home1832 habitate1866 1692 R. L'Estrange Fables i. clxvii. 140 The Kingfisher is a Solitary Bird, that Wonts commonly by the Water-side. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.¹a1400n.²1857adj.c888v.c1440
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