† ˈstrengest, a. Obs.
[OE. stręngest:—OTeut. *straŋgisto-, superl. of *strango- strong a.]
Strongest (see the senses of strong a.).
| c 893 ælfred Oros. iii. x. (Sweet) 138 Feower þa strengstan þeoda. a 1225 Ancr. R. 280 Heo [sc. humility] is..þinge strengest. a 1450 Knt. de la Tour xxiv. 34 And thanne he required hem that the strengest hore of hem shulde smite furst the stroke. 1471 Fortescue Wks. (1869) 534 This is the strengyst argument that is made in the said boke. c 1489 Caxton Sonnes of Aymon ix. 208 Ye made hym the castel of Mountalban vpon the strengest grounde that is wythin your royame. c 1500 Melusine vi. 33, I neuer sawe hym syn that the chasse was at the strengest. |