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▪ I. strange, a.|streɪn(d)ʒ|
Also 3–7 straunge, 4–6 straung, 4–7 strang, 5 strawnge, straunce, straunche, 6 straenge, straynge, straing, Sc. strenge, 6–7 strainge.
[a. OF. estrange (mod.F. étrange) = Pr. estranh, estrang, Sp. estraño, Pg. estranho, Rum. strâin, It. strano adj., stranio, strangio n.:—L. extrāneus external, foreign (see extraneous), f. extrā adv. outside, without.]
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a. Of persons, language, customs, etc.: Of or belonging to another country; foreign, alien. Obs.
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 379 Þe king made him vroþ inou,..Þat strange men in is owe lond dude a such trespas. 1338R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 36 In Ingland neuer before was kynge lufed so wele, Ne of the folk strange non honourd so mykelle. 1387Trevisa Higden II. 159 Þe Flemmynges þat woneþ in þe weste side of Wales haueþ i-left her straunge speche and spekeþ Saxonliche i-now. 1471Caxton Recuyell (Sommer) 303 They wold not haue the Iuste and true blood of egypte, but the strange blood whiche they shold take & make sacrefice therof. 1483Cath. Angl. 367/2 Strawnge, alienus, barbarus. 1572Abp. Parker Let. 13 Dec. Corr. (Parker Soc.) 411 To be first sent out to the reader, both English and strange. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. iv. ii. 134 One mounsier Berowne, one of the strange Queenes Lords. 1621J. Taylor (Water P.) Superbiæ Flagellum A 6, Ancient Bards, and Poets in strange toungs. 1642Rates of Merchandizes 66 That if any English transport Coales in strange Bottoms to pay Strangers Custome. 1755N. Magens Insurances II. 236 If a strange Master, that never was on the River Elbe before, takes a Pilot on board in foreign Parts.
†b. Of a country or other geographical feature: Situated outside one's own land. Obs.
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 5838 Þat hii & al þat lond bineþe ssolde be ydo Þoru folc of strange londe. c1386Chaucer Prol. 13 And Palmeres for to seken straunge strondes. Ibid. 464 She hadde passed many a straunge strem. 1389in Eng. Gilds (1870) 35 Also ȝef ony broþer or sister deye in straunge cuntre, in cristendom or in hethenesse. 15..Jerusalem reioss 11 in Dunbar's Poems 322 Thre Kingis of strenge regionis To the ar cumin. 1614Ralegh Hist. World iii. vii. §5. 84 Long abode in a strange ayre, and want of supplie, had much enfeebled the Athenians. 1722A. Philips Briton i. ii. 6 In a strange Land His Manes shall not wander, unappeas'd.
2. Belonging to some other place or neighbourhood; unknown to the particular locality specified or implied. Of a place or locality: Other than one's own.
c1290St. Brendan 292 in S. Eng. Leg. 227 An straunge man eche daye it bringuth In-to ovre celere, i-wis. 1390Gower Conf. III. 233 For whan a man mai redy finde His oghne wif, what scholde he seche In strange places to beseche To borwe an other mannes plouh. 1421Coventry Leet Bk. 27 That no man throw ne cast at noo straunge man, ne skorn hym. 1487–8Rec. St. Mary at Hill (1905) 129 Item, Resseyued of Margarete Bull for þe buriall of a straunge childe, ij s. 1555Ludlow Churchw. Acc. (Camden) 65 Received of mr Whytlege for the beryalle of a straunge man in the churche, vj s. viij d. 1662W. Kilburne in Extr. S.P. rel. Friends ii. (1911) 148 Within these three weeks last past I have taken notice of many strange faces which frequent this meeting. 1732Swift Exam. Abuses Dubl. Misc. 1735 V. 363 A strange Dog happens to pass through a Flesh-Market. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede xlix, There's all the sewing to be done, an' I must have a strange gell out o' Treddles'on to do it. 1892Photogr. Ann. II. 760 The address should be given in full, as tourists in strange towns have otherwise difficulty in finding the place. 1894J. Payn Gleams of Memory 9 Strange clergymen were much put out by it [sc. the old squire's snoring], and would make significant pauses in their discourse.
†3. Belonging to others; not of one's own kin or family. Obs.
1338R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 87 Purchaced þing men gyues,..tille a man is strange for his seruise. c1386Chaucer Merch. T. 196 Yet were me leuere þat houndes had me eten Than þat myn heritage sholde falle In straunge hand. c1510Robt. Deuyll (1827) 15 Ye to do justice upon hym [sc. your son] as on a straunge man. a1533Ld. Berners Golden Bk. M. Aurel. vi. (1535) 10 For perfyte knowlege of thynges,..it behoueth to haue strange aduyse, clere vnderstandynge, and propre experience.
4. strange woman: a harlot. (With the, as denoting the class.)
After many passages in the Book of Proverbs. The adj. renders two different Heb. words, nokrīyāh and zārāh, both which have the sense ‘not one's own (wife)’ (see 3).
1535Coverdale Prov. ii. 16 That thou mayest be delyuered also from the straunge woman [so later versions], and from her that is not thine owne. 1614B. Jonson Barth. Fair ii. iv. (1631) 23 Ins. If I can..but rescue this youth, here out of the hands of the lewd man and the strange woman. 1886Ruskin Præterita I. xi. 346 No fear of my being tempted by the strange woman, for was I not in love?
†5. Added or introduced from outside, not belonging to the place or person where it is found, adventitious, external. In Surg. = foreign a. 5.
c1386Chaucer Wife's T. 305 For gentillesse nys but renomee Of thyne auncestres for hire heigh bountee, Which is a strange thyng to thy persone. a1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula, etc. 83 It haþe in it a vertue putrefactyue by which he putrefieþ straunge humours comyng to a wounde. 1557Edgeworth Serm. Repert. A j. Adulteringe womens heare with strange colours, &c. is controlinge of Gods handy worke. 1578Lyte Dodoens iii. lxxxvi. 440 This is a strange plante, and not found in this Countrie, except in the gardens of some Herboristes. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. xii. 11 Yet his owne face was dreadfull, ne did need Straunge horrour, to deforme his greisly shade. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 5/3 The strange thinges are ether externall,..or anye substance of our bodyes, as splinters or parcells of bones, which we esteme straunge, because they are noe more partakers of our lyfe. 1672Wiseman Treat. Wounds ii. v. 30 Cleanse the Wound first from all strange Bodies.
†6. With from: Alien, far removed; diverse, different. Obs.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 431 Alle þes bodiliche signes ben straunge fro charite. Ibid. 511 Þerfore no newe secte of religioun, straunge fro Cristis secte, shulde have begunne. c1440Pallad. on Husb. iii. 91 A witty man tacth preued thyng, & change He macth, that lond from lond be not to strange. 1456Coventry Leet Bk. 294 To be estraunged from his Crafte..and to be reputed & holden as straunge from eny benyvolence of this Cite. 1577Hanmer Anc. Eccl. Hist., Euseb. vi. xxxii. 112 Beryllus..went about to establyshe forrayne and straunge doctrine from the fayth.
7. Unknown, unfamiliar; not known, met with, or experienced before. Const. to.
13..K. Alis. 4817 Hy ledden hym..In the straungest peryl of Inde. 1390Gower Conf. III. 252 In strange place and doun thei lihte And take a chambre. c1391Chaucer Astrol. ii. §17 Rubric, To knowe the verrey degree of any maner sterre straunge or vnstraunge after his longitude. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xiv. 9 So nyce array, so strange to thair abbay. 1513Douglas æneis vii. iii. 45 As ȝow art careyt tyll ane strange cost [L. ignota ad litora vectum]. 1551Recorde Pathw. Knowl. To Rdr., Straung paths ar not troden al truly at the first. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. iv. ii. 209 You know the Charracter I doubt not, and the Signet is not strange to you? 1611Bible Transl. Pref. ⁋5 Euen S. Hierome himselfe calleth the Hebrew tongue barbarous, belike because it was strange to so many. 1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. (1746) 261 Strange things are ever best liked. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 567 Until they become familiar with nurse and mamma, and then they take violent distaste at strange faces. 1830Greville Mem. (1874) II. 29 The next Parliament..is besides very ill composed—full of boys and all sorts of strange men. 1842Tennyson Morte D'Arthur 238 Among new men, strange faces, other minds. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Strange Sail, a vessel heaving in sight, of which the particulars are unknown. 1889Universal Rev. 15 Feb. 251 One good jump on a strange horse shows standard horsemanship.
†8. Of a kind that is unfamiliar or rare; unusual, uncommon, exceptional, singular, out of the way. Obs. (Merged in 10.)
13..Coer de L. 268 Kyng Rychard gan hym dysguyse In a ful strange queyntyse. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 116 And forsoth I couth noght So strange Inglis as þai wroght. 1340Hampole Psalter Pref. 4 In this werke .i. seke na straunge ynglis, bot lyghtest and commonest. c1374Chaucer Anel. & Arc. 202 The kynde of mannes herte is to delyte In thing that straunge is. 1390Gower Conf. I. 89 Strange aventures forto seche, He rod the Marches al aboute. 1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy ii. 4187 The straunge metis, þe manere of þe seruyse, I haue noon englische al for to deuyse. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. iii. 86 This should first be learned, yt we neuer affect any straunge ynkehorne termes, but so speake as is commonly receiued. 1554–5in Feuillerat Revels Q. Mary (1914) 173 Verey fayer quaint and strange attier. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iv. xxv. 141 Skins of al sorts, of liuely colours, straunge and diuers aboue al..in the world. 1663Heath Flagellum (1672) 24 And all by such uncouth and strang passes, such unexpected..contingency of things.
9. a. Exceptionally great (in degree, intensity, amount, etc.), extreme. (Now tending to merge in 10.)
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 454 But þis abusioun were to straunge. 1573–80Tusser Husb. (1878) 62 Sea rages in winter be sodainly strange. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. xv. 50 The last [earthquake].. was so straunge and fearful for the space of xviii. dayes continually. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. ii. ii. 157, I did not think to draw my Sword 'gainst Pompey, For he hath laid strange courtesies, and great Of late vpon me. 1663Patrick Pilgrim xxvi, The ensuing part of the road was very dangerous,..and of a strange length. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 227 His Eyes sparkled, and his Countenance discover'd a strange Eagerness. Ibid. 300 Taking Devilish long Strides, and shuffling along at a strange Rate. 1752Foote Taste i. i, I have a strange Mind to leave you to yourselves. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xxxiii, Strange was the courage and address which he displayed in his pursuits. 1828Carr Craven Gloss., Strange, great. ‘A strange deal.’ 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vii. II. 195 The fall of the Hydes had excited throughout England strange [1858 ed., extreme] alarm and indignation. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 33 The aspiration after good has often lent a strange power to evil.
b. quasi-adv., qualifying an adj.: Very, extremely. Also strange and —. Now dial.
1667Wood Life (O.H.S.) II. 102 March 6,..began the strange cold weather with great winds. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. i. ii. 17 The Sea breaks strange and dangerous. 1888G. M. Fenn Dick o' the Fens 133, I've got a straänge nice lot o' bait. Ibid. 160, I'm straänge and glad you've caught him.
10. a. Unfamiliar, abnormal, or exceptional to a degree that excites wonder or astonishent; difficult to take in or account for; queer, surprising, unaccountable.
c1374Chaucer Troylus v. 120, I wot yow þenketh straunge, No wonder is, for it is to yow newe, Thaqueyntaunce of þese Troians to chaunge For folk of Grece þat ye neuere knewe. 1390Gower Conf. I. 24 Me thoghte I syh upon a Stage Wher stod a wonder strange ymage. 1461Paston Lett. II. 39 The gydyng of youre adversary hath been in many causez ryght straunce. 1549Latimer Ploughers (Arb.) 29 And nowe I would aske a straung question. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 27 Many straunge and wonderfull sightes were seene this present yere in the skie. 1610Shakes. Temp. v. i. 242 This is as strange a Maze, as ere men trod. 1620I. C. Two Merry Milk-maids iv. i. L 3, But this is very strange. Fre. But not so strange as true, I am a witnesse of it. 1779Mirror No. 57 They complained that I was a strange fellow, who hated company. 1782F. Burney Cecilia iv. ii, Will you not think me very strange if I should take the liberty to consult you upon some business? 1823Byron Juan xiv. ci, 'Tis strange—but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction. 1842Browning Pied Piper v, ‘Come in!’—the Mayor cried, looking bigger: And in did come the strangest figure! 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xv. 103 It seemed strange that a man should be there alone. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 188 The professors of education are strange beings.
absol.1815Shelley Alastor 112 Whatsoe'er of strange Sculptured on alabaster obelisk,..Dark Ethiopia in her desert hills Conceals. 1839T. Mitchell Frogs of Aristoph. Introd. p. cvi. note, æschylus..loved exceedingly the strange and the exciting.
†b. to think (it) strange of (or concerning): to be surprised at. Obs.
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. i. xvii. 19 b, He had vnderstanding, that the Frigate..was of Malta, whereof he thought very straunge [Fr. ce qu'il trouuoit estrange & mauuais]. 1611Bible 1 Pet. iv. 12 Beloued, thinke it not strange [Gr. µὴ ξενίζεσθε] concerning the fiery triall, which is to try you.
c. strange to say, tell, etc., used parenthetically: cf. say v.1 11. Similarly strange enough.
[1576Gascoigne Steele Gl. (Arb.) 68 Strange tale to tel: all officers be blynde.] 1697Dryden æneis ii. 930 While I held my Son,..Strange to relate, from young Iulus Head A lambent Flame arose. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxii. (1856) 170 Strange enough, during the night, Captain Austin..entered the same indentation. 1859FitzGerald Omar lx, And, strange to tell, among that Earthen Lot Some could articulate, while others not. 1862M. E. Braddon Lady Audley viii, Strange to say, George Talboys, who very seldom observed anything, took particular notice of this place.
d. quasi-int. ‘An expression of wonder’ (J.); ‘an elliptical expression for it is strange (W. 1828).
c1670Waller St. James's Park Poems (1722) 163 Strange! what Extremes shou'd thus preserve the Snow, High on the Alps, or in deep Caves below. 1694Locke Treat. Govt. (ed. 2) i. xi. §147 Strange! that Fatherly Authority should be the only Original of government, and yet all Mankind not know it; and Stranger yet, that [etc.]. 1725[see tweedle-].
e. Particle Physics. Epithet of those sub-atomic particles that have a non-zero value of the strangeness quantum number.
So called orig. because they had lifetimes much longer than was expected from their being produced by the strong interaction.
1956M. Gell-Mann in Nuovo Cimento IV. Suppl. 850 We shall refer to the nucleon.., the antinucleon.., and the pion..as ‘ordinary particles’ to distinguish them from the ‘strange particles’, K-particles and hyperons. 1965H. Muirhead Physics Elem. Particles i. 20 The discoveries of new particles have occurred sometimes as a result of a theoretical impetus and sometimes by accident. The strange particles fall into the latter category. 1973L. J. Tassie Physics Elem. Particles vi. 51 A typical strange particle is the λ°, an uncharged particle which decays with a mean lifetime of 2·5 × 10-10 s. 1974Frauenfelder & Henley Subatomic Physics xiii. 358 To construct strange mesons and strange baryons, at least one strange quark is needed. 1975Physics Bull. Apr. 177/1 There are two nonstrange quarks, u and d, a doublet under SU(2), and a strange quark which is a singlet under SU(2). 1977Sci. Amer. Oct. 58/3 There must be a set of lightest strange particles, which have no states of lower mass to which they can give the s quark. These are the K mesons and the lambda baryon (λ).
†11. Of persons:
a. Unfriendly; having the feelings alienated.
b. Distant or cold in demeanour; reserved; not affable, familiar, or encouraging; uncomplying, unwilling to accede to a request or desire. Obs.
1338R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 50 Olaf in Norweie..bare him ouer strange to þe kyng Knoute. a1366Chaucer Rom. Rose 1065 These losengers thorough flaterye Haue maad folk ful straunge be There hem ought be pryue. 1423Jas. I Kingis Q. cii, And though I was vnto ȝour lawis strange, By ignorance, and noght by felonye. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxxiv. (Percy Soc.) 173 Be straunge unto hym, as ye knowe nothyng The perfite cause of his true commyng. 1538Elyot Dict. Addit., Auersus, straunge, vnacquaynted. a1568A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) xxi. 18, I fand hir of ane staffage kynd, Bath staitly, strange, and he. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. ii. ii. 102, I should haue beene more strange, I must confesse. a1593Marlowe Edw. II, ii. iv. 1162 If he be straunge and not regarde my wordes. 1633Rowley Match at Midn. iii. i. F 4 b, I was strange, in the nice timerous temper of a Maid. 1700Congreve Way of World iv. v, Mil... Let us never Visit together, nor go to a Play together, But let us be very strange and well bred. 1763Churchill Night 87 The strange reserve, the proud affected state Of upstart knaves grown rich, and fools grown great.
†c. Sparing of (one's favour). Obs.
1548Hall Chron., Edw. V 3 b, Some were reconsiled and growen into his fauoure, of the whiche he was neuer straunge, when it was with true herte demaunded.
†d. to make oneself strange: to be distant or unfriendly. Obs.
1390Gower Conf. I. 144 He [sc. Nebuchadnezzar] kneleth in his wise and braieth, To seche merci and assaieth His god, which made him nothing strange, Whan that he sih his pride change. Ibid. III. 195 And for he wolde his herte glade, He lihte and made him nothing strange. 1566Painter Palace Pleas. (1569) I. 232 b, Myne aduise is, that by litle and litle, you do make your selfe straunge, and vse no more your wonted grace vnto him.
†e. to look strange: to look at a person as if one did not know him. Obs.
1590Shakes. Com. Err. v. i. 295 Why looke you strange on me? you know me well. c1600― Sonn. lxxxix. 8, I will acquaintance strangle and looke strange.
12. Of a person: Unfamiliar or unacquainted with something (specified or implied); † inexperienced or unversed in; fresh or unaccustomed to; unpractised or unskilled at.
1561Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtier ii. (1577) H vi b, And whan he hath it [promotion], let him not shewe himselfe new or straunge in it. 1590Shakes. Com. Err. ii. ii. 151 In Ephesus I am but two houres old, As strange vnto your towne, as to your talke. 1607― Timon iv. iii. 56, I know thee well: But in thy Fortunes am vnlearn'd, and strange. 1770Luckombe Hist. Printing 323 An understanding Pressman knows..how to give a strange joyner and smith instructions to make a Press. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. II. vi. 86 Though as strange at the work As fribble must be. 1911Concise Oxf. Dict. s.v., [I] am strange to the work.
13. to make (it) strange: to make difficulties, refuse to assent or comply, be reluctant or unwilling; to hold back, keep a stand-off attitude; to be distant or unfriendly; to affect coyness; to pretend not to understand; to affect or feel surprise, dislike, indignation, etc. Const. of (= about) a matter, etc.; to (do something); also to make strange at.
†a. to make it strange. Obs.
c1386Chaucer Reeve's T. 60 And straunge he made it of hir mariage. c1386― Frankl. T. 495 He made it straunge, and swoor, so god hym saue, Lasse than a thousand pound he wolde nat haue. c1440Gesta Rom. xlix. 220 What! deer love, whi makest þow hit nowe so straunge to me? c1530Ld. Berners Arth. Lyt. Brit. (1814) 351 Though she make it straunge & deny you at the fyrst, yet be not ashamed therwith, & she shall loue you the better. 1566Painter Palace Pleas. (1575) I. 249 b, The husbande hearinge him saye so, commaunded his wyfe to kisse him, which she did although she made it straunge, either for the Lordes desire or for husbands request to do the same. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. i. ii. 102 She makes it strange, but she would be best pleas'd To be so angred with another Letter.
b. to make strange. Also (esp. in earlier use) const. at, of. Now dial. and N. Amer.
1456–7Paston Lett. I. 406 Whan he maket straunge to ley dowun the condempnacion. 1549Somerset etc. in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) II. ii. 102 If they shal make strange to have the same [treaty] so confirmed. a1553Udall Royster D. v. vi. (Arb.) 84 R. Thei wer not angry then. M. Yes at first, and made strange. 1565Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Delicium, Delicias facere, to make strange and dally, because he would be intreated. 1598Chapman Blinde Beg. Alexandria D 2 b, Therefore beautious Ladie make not strange, To take a freind and adde vnto thy Ioyes. 1602Rowlands Greenes Ghost 46 Maister Doctor at the first made strange of the matter, and seemed verie loth to deale in it. 1633Ford 'Tis Pity ii. i, Sir, now you know my house, pray make not strange. 1655tr. Sorel's Com. Hist. Francion ix. 18 This brown lasse did make a request to the Shepherd for her, but at the first he seemed to stand off, and to make strange thereat. 1727De Foe Hist. Appar. viii (1840) 134 However, she made still strange of it. 1773C. Dibdin Deserter i. vii, How strange you make of this matter! 1904Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 804/2 Strange... 1. adj...W[est]m[oreland]. Also said of one who professes to be in ignorance of some matters it is well known he understands. ‘Thoo's neea casion to makt seea strange, thoo knows o' t'time.’ 1937P. K. Devine Devine's Folk Lore of Newfoundland 33 To make strange, to be afraid or timid. ‘Don't make strange,’ said to a guest sitting down to eat. 1966Amer. Speech XLI. 295 [Newfoundland] Don't make strange. Said to make a guest feel at home. 1974P. Gzowski Bk. about this Country 173/1 The luxury of a babysitter is rare—besides, the baby makes strange, and no babysitter with knowledge aforehand would come near!
II. absol., passing into n.
†14. A strange person, stranger; in pl. sense, strangers. Also rarely in pl. form. Obs.
Trevisa has straungene as genit. pl.
a1325MS. Rawl. B. 520 lf. 31 b, Felonies i don to straunge. c1325Prose Ps. xciii. 6 Hij slowen wydowes and straunge. c1374Chaucer Troylus ii. 411 (Campsall MS.) Allas what shulde straunge to me don When he þat for my best frend y wende [etc.]. 1387Trevisa Higden V. 321 In holy place I now reste in straungene londe. c1400Destr. Troy 2975 Þou couet to se þat straunge, þat was stoute. c1400Laud Troy Bk. 7182 Ȝe may ȝit kyng Thoas chaunge For on of oure or for som strange. 1477in Engl. Miscell. (Surtees 1890) 27 Item William Panter..maid afray of ij stranghis.
†15. pl. News. Obs. rare—1.
a1500Coventry Corpus Chr. Plays ii. 4 Where nevis and strangis be cum of lately, Affermyng the seyng of old profecie.
III. 16. Comb., forming adjs.a. parasynthetic, as strange-plumaged, strange-tongued; b. prefixed as compl. to pres. pples., as strange-looking, strange-sounding; c. adverbially (now rare), as strange-achieved, strange-composed, strange-digested, strange-moulded, etc.
1534More Comf. agst. Trib. iii. xx. Wks. 1246/1 He may be a minstrell & make melodye you wotte wel with some other instrument, some straunge fashioned peraduenture, that neuer was seene before. 1549Coverdale etc. Erasm. Par. Eph. Prol. {fatpara}j, So diligent to continue & aduaunce their popyshe pryuate masses & other straunge tounged seruice. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iv. v. 72 For this, they haue ingrossed and pyl'd vp The canker'd heapes of strange-atchieved Gold. 1601― Jul. C. i. iii. 33 Indeed, it is a strange disposed time. 1607Tourneur Rev. Trag. i. i. A 3, Some strange digested fellow..Of ill-contented nature. Ibid., Ile be that strange composed fellow. 1627May Lucan i. B 1, Strange formed Meteors the thicke ayre had bred. 1756Home Douglas ii. (1757) 28 The red moon..Cross'd and divided by strange-colour'd clouds. 1814Scott Diary 10 Aug. in Lockhart (1837) III. iv. 171 One of their boats comes off, a strange-looking thing without an entire plank in it. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. (1859) 53 Some strange-favored being. 1842Borrow Bible in Spain xxv, They were conversing with each other in a strange sounding dialect. 1859Tennyson Elaine 796 Under the strange-statued gate. 1868–70Morris Earthly Par. iii. 75 Among strange-plumaged bird, Strange-fruited tree, and strange-clad maid. 1917D. H. Lawrence Look! We have come Through! 135 Also she who is the other has strange-moulded breasts.
Senses 10 d, e in Dict. become 10 e, f. Add: [I.] [10.] d. As adv. In an unusual or peculiar manner; = strangely adv. 5. Cf. senses 9 b and 16 c. dial. and colloq.
1603Shakes. Meas. for M. v. i. 36 Angelo. And she will speake most bitterly, and strange. Isabella. Most strange: but yet most truely, will I speake. 1780J. Woodforde Diary 28 Mar. (1924) I. 276 Sam talked rather strange to me before breakfast today. 1920E. O'Neill Beyond Horizon I. ii. 36 What's come over Andy tonight, I wonder? He acts so strange. 1939A. Huxley After Many a Summer ii. iii. 206 The Baby was acting strange... Acting for all the world like one of those advertisements for Sal Hepatica or California Syrup of Figs.
Senses 10 d, e in Dict. become 10 e, f. Add: [III.] 17. Special collocation: strange attractor Math., an attractor that is a fractal set, representing a situation in which the ultimate behaviour of a dynamic system is chaotic.
1971Ruelle & Takens in Communications Math. Physics XX. 170 Going back to the vector field X, we have thus a ‘*strange’ attractor which is locally the product of a Cantor set and a piece of two-dimensional manifold. 1987Nature 23 Apr. 753/2 Self-determination may well be compatible with unpredictability and even with randomness, provided that the motions are unstable and possess what are, in modern chaos theory, called strange attractors. 1988I. Peterson Math. Tourist vi. 146 Under certain conditions, however, nonlinear differential equations generate trajectories in phase space that form peculiar shapes, having none of the regularity associated with the previous examples of attractors. Such objects are called chaotic, or strange, attractors. 1991Omni Feb. 24/4 Physicists..can reduce the turbulence of airflow over a helicopter blade to mathematical values that charted geometrically, settle into a..pattern..called a strange attractor.
▪ II. † strange, v. Obs.
Also 5–6 straunge, 5 straunche.
[ad. OF. estranger: see estrange v.]
1. trans. To remove, banish, keep apart from an accustomed place, condition, relations, etc.
c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iii. li. (1869) 162 Ye shulden now be me ful sweete and deere, ne were j so aloyned and straunged from yow. 1450Rolls of Parlt. V. 216/2 He shuld be straunged from his high Presence, and from his Court. c1450Knt. de la Tour 58 And for that dede we were..straunged from gret ioye and blisse. 1547Bk. of Marchantes b j b, The pore people ae so vndertrod, grawen, devoured, and so straunged for [= from] y⊇ knowledge of God. 1559Mirr. Mag., Mowbray banished xxi, I that was exylde for aye, My enmy straunged but for a ten yeares daye.
2. To make strange or different, alter.
1390Gower Conf. II. 329 For anon after he was changed And from his oghne kinde stranged, A lappewincke mad he was. Ibid. III. 77 The See his propre kinde changeth, And al the world his forme strangeth. 1567Drant Hor. De Arte Poet. A ij, By wittie composition its excellente to heare A knowne worde straunged hansumlye. 1638R. Brathwait Barnabees Jrnl. iv. (1818) 167 Musing I should be so stranged, I resolv'd them, I was changed.
3. To alienate in feeling or affection, estrange from (rarely of).
1460Paston Lett. I. 507 That I schulde..sodenly have departed in to these parties,..and that I straunched me from sertein persones to moche. 1483Caxton Golden Leg. 266/2 She lad the lyf of an heremyte and al Straunged fro the world. c1500Melusine xiii. 48 Are ye as now so straunged of vs that ye marye you without that we know therof tyl the day of weddyng? 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Estrangé, stranged, alienated. 1623J. Wodroephe Spared Hours Soldier 364 Vice and Laizinesse, which offuscate & diffame the Children of good Houses, stranging them from their God. 1641Tombes Leaven Phar. Wil-worship (1643) 9 It strangeth the mindes of people and Ministers from learning, and studying Gods word. a1656Bp. Hall Rem. Wks. (1660) 146 Did we love our Father in Heaven as Children could we strange ourselves from his interest? 1691D'Emiliane's Frauds Rom. Monks 47, I might have had good reason to infer from their behaviour, that their Hearts were much stranged from the words of their Lips. 1715tr. C'tess D'Anois' Wks. 93, I thought him quite strang'd from me.
b. To make (a person) a stranger to (a sentiment).
1390Gower Conf. II. 190 Whan ther is lacke in hem above, The poeple is stranged to the love Of trouthe, in cause of ignorance. Ibid. III. 210 He which that wolde himselve strange To Pite, fond mercy so strange, That he withoute grace is lore.
4. ? To grudge (something valuable) to (a person); refl. to refuse (to grant something).
1439Rolls of Parlt. V. 24/1 By cause of which Statuyt thus made, the Chaunceller of Englond for the tyme beyng, hath straunged hem oft tymes to graunt Licences. c1489Caxton Blanchardyn 71 That sore lytyll that god hath lent me of goodes sholde not be straunged vnto hym by me, for he is worthy to haue mykel more.
5. intr. To depart, estrange oneself from; to be removed or become alienated from.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. I. 12 Crist shulde be our maister, and we shulden not strange from him. Ibid. 79 Men shulden speke her wordis as Goddis lawe spekiþ, and strange not in speche from undirstondinge of þe puple. 1390Gower Conf. III. 6 Mi wittes changen And alle lustes fro me strangen.
6. To become strange or changed. Obs.
1390Gower Conf. II. 264 And riht so as hir jargoun strangeth, In sondri wise hir forme chaungeth.
7. To be surprised, wonder. Const. at, dependent clause, or to and inf.
1639Fuller Holy War iv. ii. 169 Whereat I should strange more, but that [etc.]. 1648J. Geree Red Horse 7 Strange not then at changes. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iii. i. 69 Thou wouldst not much strange that I doe before-hand conforme my selfe to the Ceremony. 1664Butler Hud. ii. i. 9 Is't not enough to make one strange, That some mens fancies should ne'er change? 1671True Non-Conformist 472, I strange you should accuse Henry the Eight of a civil Papacy, and so inconsequently acquit al his Successors. a1691G. Fox Jrnl. (1827) I. 80, I stranged at it. 1696E. West Mem. (1865) 53, I stranged mightily what might be the reason that the mills were going. 1757E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances (1767) II. 158 J. M. is in this house, offered me his company, and stranges much, as the waiter phrases it, why I should thus chuse to be alone. 1788Shirrefs Poems (1790) 164, I strange to hear ye speak in sic a stile. 1880Antrim & Down Gloss. s.v., I strange very much that you didn't come.
b. trans. To wonder at.
1641R. Harris Abners Funerall Ep. Ded., Madam, Strange not my slownesse.
c. To surprise.
1657Gaule Sap. Justif. 74 It stranges me still, that [etc.].
Hence † stranged ppl. a., made strange; † ˈstranging vbl. n., wondering.
1581T. Howell Deuises K iij b, What straunged sight hath me dismaide. 1658W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. ii. verse 15. xvi. 456 This very thing made one of the Disciples ask Christ with no little stranging at it, Lord [etc.]. |