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▪ I. † diˈstent, n. Obs.
[ad. L. distentus (u- stem) a stretching out, distending, f. ppl. stem of distendĕre to distend.]
Stretching out; out-stretched extent; distension; breadth.
1613–18Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 34 The wide distent of these tumors, fed from many secret veines. 1614Raleigh Hist. World iii. x. §4 The fronts of the two Armies were so vnequall in distent. 1624Wotton Archit. in Reliq. (1672) 32 [To] be distended one fourteenth part..which addition of distent will confer much to their Beauty. 1659B. Harris Parival's Iron Age 6 Poland is of very vast distent.
▪ II. distent, ppl. a.|dɪˈstɛnt|
[ad. L. distent-us, pa. pple. of distendĕre. Commonly used as a pa. pple., = distended, on the analogy of such contracted pa. pples. as sent, spent.]
†1. Stretched out at full length or breadth; extended. Obs.
1590Spenser F.Q. ii. vii. 5 Great heapes of gold that never could be spent; Of which some were rude owre..others were new driven, and distent Into great Ingowes and to wedges square. 1773J. Ross Fratricide ii. 296 (MS.) Thus murmur'd Earth's first-born..Distent upon the ground.
2. Expanded by stretching; swollen out.
1605Drayton Man in Moon (R.), The bright Latona..her womb distent, With the great burden that by Jove she bare. 1728–46Thomson Spring 145 The big clouds with vernal showers distent. 1880L. Wallace Ben-Hur 360 Nostrils..now distent, now contracted.
▪ III. † diˈstent, v. Obs.
[f. L. distent- ppl. stem of distendĕre.]
= distend. (Perhaps only in pa. pple. distended = prec.)
1578Banister Hist. Man v. 72 The intrels..distented, or retched out by the thynges conteined. c1720W. Gibson Farrier's Dispens. iii. i. App. (1734) 64 When the Stomack is moderately distented. Ibid. The Blood-vessels of the Brain being..filled and distented. Ibid. xi. 255. c 1720 Collect. Misc. Lett. fr. Miot's Jrnl. (1722) II. 19 Bee's distented Thigh. |