† swench Obs.
Forms: 1 suoenc, suenc, (ᵹe)swenc, 1–3 swench, 3–4 suench, swunch.
[OE. swenc (also ᵹe-):—*swaŋki-, f. swaŋk-: cf. next and swinch. For the variant swunch cf. stench n.]
In OE., affliction, trial; in ME., labour, toil.
| c 950 Lindisf. Gosp. Luke xxii. 28 In temtationibus meis, in suoenccum [Rushw. swencum] minum. Ibid. xxiv. 20 In damnationem mortis, in niðrung vel in suoenc deaðes [Rushw. in swenche vel costunge deoðes]. c 1000 in Cockayne Narrat. Angl. (1861) 40 Hu se eadeᵹa margareta ᵹeþrowade..& þurh þæt ᵹeswenc to ece reste becom. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 179 On sore eche we hider cumen. On swunche we here wunien. In wowe we henne witeð. c 1290 St. Brendan 623 in S. Eng. Leg. 237 A Monek liuez muche bi swunche [v.rr. swench, swinche] of mannes honde. 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 962 To ȝiue hom to libbe by bi suench [v.rr. swinch, swynke] of hor honde. Ibid. 4810 Alle leuede bi hor suench. |