engendure arch.
(ɛnˈdʒɛndjʊə(r))
Also 5 inngendure.
[Bad form of prec.]
= prec. lit. and fig.
| ? a 1400 Morte Arth. 3744 Of siche a engendure fulle littylle joye happyns. c 1450 Merlin i. 18 My moder..natht knoweth of that thow puttest on hir in thy Inngendure. a 1454 Hoccleve MS. Soc. Antiq. 134. f. 259 (Halliwell) Leefulle luste is necessarie, Withouten that may be non engendure. 1823 Lamb Elia (1860) 135 Crown-office Row (place of my kindly engendure). 1864 Lowell Biglow P. Poet. Wks. (1879) 247 Knowledge of the..engendure and affinities of our noble language. |