† lenger, a. and adv. Obs.
[OE. lęngra, neut. and fem. lęngre:—OTeut. *laŋgizon-, compar. of long a.]
A. adj. Longer.
| c 900 tr. Bæda's Hist. i. i. (1890) 26 Þis ealond hafað mycele lengran daᵹas on sumera..þonne ða suðdælas mid⁓ danᵹeardes. c 1340 Cursor M. 490 (Trin.) He fel wiþouten lenger abade [Cott. langer bade]. c 1386 Chaucer Prol. 330 Of his array telle I no lenger tale. a 1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 42 The parchemyn that he wrote in was shorte, and he plucked harde to have made it lengger with his tethe. c 1450 Merlin 110 The barouns hadde sente for hym that he sholde come with-oute lenger a-bidinge. 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 100 b, We haue made this chapyter somwhat lenger than we entended. 1558 Bury Wills (Camden) 152 My saide iiij children or the lenger lyver of them. 1561 Norton & Sackv. Gorboduc iv. ii. (Shaks. Soc.) 136 Our present hande coulde staie no lenger tyme. |
B. adv. Longer.
| c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 139 Ðo ne mihte his holinesse ben no lengere for-hole. c 1290 Beket 219 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 113 Þis child wolde lengore gon to scole, ake is fader him nolde finde. c 1340 Cursor M. 3948 (Trin.) Iacob..So shal þi name no lenger be [Cott. Sal þou na langer hetten sua]. c 1385 Chaucer Anel. & Arc. 129 And euer the lenger she loued him tendirly. c 1450 St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 5296 Þe scottys þare na lenger duell. 1521 Fisher Serm. agst. Luther Wks. (1876) 340 This persecucyon lenger continued than the other twayne. 1533 More Answ. Poysoned Bk. Wks. 1047/1 These folke do not long to eate and drincke, to lyue the lenger, but long to liue, to eate and drincke the lenger. 1590 Spenser F.Q. i. vii. 22 Why do ye lenger feed on loathed light? |
b. Farther. rare—1.
| c 1425 Found. St. Bartholomew's 10 An hospitall howse a litill lenger of from the chirche by hymself. |