▪ I. † seynt Obs.
Also 4 saynt, (sayn), ceint, 4–5 seinte, ceynt(e, 4–6 seint, 5 saint, (sent).
[a. OF. ceint masc., ceinte fem.:—popular L. cinctum neut., cincta fem. (whence Sp., Pg., It. cinto, cinta) = older L. cinctu-s (u-stem), f. cingĕre to gird.]
A girdle.
| a 1350 Assumpt. Mary 473 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 118 A saynt of silk..Þat was obut hir medel done. 13.. Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 589 With silk sayn vmbe his syde. Ibid. 2431. c 1386 Chaucer Prol. 329 A Sergeant of the Lawe..Ther was..He rood but hoomly in a medlee cote Girt with a ceint [v. rr. ceynt, seynt, seint, sent] of silk with barres smale. 1399 Langl. Rich. Redeles iii. 140 For they..settith all her siluer in seintis and hornes. c 1400 Ywaine & Gaw. 1772 A riche robe als gan sho ta, And a saint of silk alswa. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle v. v. (1859) 76 Aungels..clothed..of reed bloody purpure, gyrd with ceyntes of gold. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 451/2 Seynt, or cors of a gyrdylle, textum. c 1530 Crt. of Love 817 With aureat seint about her sydes clene. 1530 Palsgr. 268/1 Seynt of a gyrdell, tissu. |
▪ II. seynt
obs. form of saint, singed ppl. a.1