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▪ I. † frequent, n. Obs. rare—2.
[f. frequent v.]
Frequentation, resort.
1631R. Brathwait Whimzies, Decoy 28 Private alleys are his sanctuaryes in the citie: but places of publike frequent in the countrey. 1635― Arcad. Pr. ii. 162 Private solitary groves Shut from frequent, his contemplation loves.
▪ II. frequent, a.|ˈfriːkwənt|
[ad. L. frequent-em crowded, frequent; cognate with farcīre to stuff (see farce v.1).]
†1. Of persons, an assembly, etc.: Assembled in great numbers, crowded, full. Often in full and frequent. Obs.
1590Disc. conc. Span. Invas. in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 166 There was generally made throughout the whole realm a most frequent assembly of all sorts of people. 1606Holland Sueton. 14 He..in a ful and frequent assemblie..besought the faithfull helpe and assistance of his soldiers. c1611Chapman Iliad ii. 71 As when of frequent bees Swarms rise out of a hollow rock. 1638Baillie Lett. (1775) I. 37 To-morrow, in Stirling, is expected a frequent council. 1674Dryden State Innoc. i. Wks. 1883 V. 128 'Tis fit in frequent senate we confer. 1725Pope Odyss. xvi. 377 Apart they sate, And full and frequent, form'd a dire debate. 1746H. Walpole Lett. to Sir H. Mann (1857) II. 38 One hundred and thirty-nine Lords were present, and made a noble sight on their benches frequent and full!
†b. Of a place: Filled, full, crowded (with persons, rarely with things). Also, much resorted to, frequented. Obs.
1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. p. xviii, The erd is now mair frequent in pepil than it was. 1555Grindal Rem. (1843) 239 Master Scory and certain other..have an English Church there, but not very frequent. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 342 When he was to play upon his harpe, for a prize in some frequent Theater. 1604R. Cawdrey Table Alph., Frequent, much haunted, or goe too. 1673Ray Journ. Low C. 1 The town..seemed frequent and full of people. 1815Shelley Alastor 93 Halls, Frequent with crystal column, and clear shrines Of pearl.
2. Found at short distances apart; numerous, abundant. Somewhat arch.
1605Camden Rem. (1637) 2 [Britaine is]..beautified with many populous Cities..frequent Hospitals [etc.]. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 343 There is no Beast so frequent as these in all Cilicia. 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 2 Pirats and Pickaroones: which are very frequent upon the Coasts of Spain. 1705Addison Italy (1766) 149 Through frequent cracks the steaming sulphur broke. 1722D. Coxe Carolina 86 The Plant..is very frequent in most of the Southern Parts of this Country. 1816Keatinge Trav. (1817) I. 217 Walls..flanked and crowned by frequent square towers. 1860Hawthorne Transform. II. xvi. 275 It was a wise and lovely sentiment, that set up the frequent shrine and cross along the roadside.
3. Commonly used or practised, well known, common, usual. Now rare. † frequent to: commonly occurring in.
1531Elyot Gov. iii. vii, Howe frequent and familiar a thynge with euery astate and degre throughout Christendome is this reuerent othe. 1635A. Stafford Fem. Glory (1869) 39, I have not..used any one word not frequent and familiar. a1668Davenant Siege i. Dram. Wks. 1873 IV. 375 In the epistles Dedicatory..'tis frequent To bely men with praise. 1706Congreve Disc. Pindaric Ode A j, There is nothing more frequent among us, than..Pindarique Odes. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) II. 239 Such enamelled plates being frequent to old watches instead of crystals. 1816Keatinge Trav. (1817) I. 139 Such we may rely on it was a picture, and a correct one, of frequent life. 1869Times 1 Jan. 4 It is frequent to impute to Radicals the wish to ‘Americanize our institutions’.
†b. Of a report, etc.: Widely current. Of a book: Widely circulated, popular. Obs.
1623Crt. & Times Jas. I (1849) II. 369, I was not then fully persuaded of the prince's going to Spain, though the report were frequent, from London. 1626Massinger Rom. Actor i. i, 'Tis frequent in the city he hath subdued The Catti and the Daci. 1628Earle Microcosm., Pot-Poet (Arb.) 46 His frequent'st Workes goe out in single sheets. 1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 62 The story is frequent.
4. Happening or occurring at short intervals; often recurring; coming or happening in close succession. Of the pulse: Faster than is normal or usual (cf. F. pouls fréquent).
The prevailing sense, by which all the others, so far as they survive, are more or less coloured.
1604R. Cawdrey Table Alph., Frequent, often, done many times. 1615J. Stephens Satyr. Ess. 260 This watch-word will be frequent in his cups. 1662–3Marvell Corr. xxxvii. Wks. 1872–5 II. 83 Concerning which you may expect frequente letters. 1707Floyer Physic. Pulse-Watch 43 This Pulse is feverish..and frequenter than the former. 1750T. Newton Postscr. to Milton's P.L., There have been frequent forgeries in the literary world. 1795Gentl. Mag. 539/2 The blights were this year..more frequent, and..more destructive than usual. 1816J. Wilson City of Plague i. i, These green banks..Brown, when I left them last, with frequent feet. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xxiii. 166 The snow was deep..and our immersions in unseen holes very frequent.
5. Addicted to, wont to indulge in (a practice, course of action); accustomed to do (something); given to repetition in (a subject). Now rare.
1560Rolland Crt. Venus ii. 911 Bot weill ȝe knaw, thair is na men frequent To enter heir. 1608Dod & Cleaver Expos. Prov. ix. & xii. 101 The holy Ghost in this booke, is very frequent in this point. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. iv. ii. 36 He is..lesse frequent to his Princely exercises then formerly he hath appeared. 1616Donne Serm. cliii. (Alford) VI. 118 The fathers were frequent in comparing..Eve the Mother of Man and Mary the Mother of God. 1649Bp. Hall Cases Consc. 7 How frequent the Scripture is in the prohibition of this practice. 1710Steele Tatler No. 244 ⁋5 Fellows of this Class are very frequent in the Repetition of the Words Rough and Manly. 1854–58Newman Idea of University (1873) 329 Milton is frequent in allusions to his own history and circumstances.
6.
†a. That is often at or in (a place). Obs.
b. (with an agent-noun): That does a thing often; constant, habitual, regular.
1611Bible 2 Cor. xi. 23 In prisons more frequent: in deaths oft. 1624Massinger Parl. Love i. iv, In suffering such a crew of riotous gallants..to be so frequent Both in your house and presence. 1628in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 208 Fyve of the frequentest Comunicants. 1784Cowper Task vi. 306 The timorous hare, Grown so familiar with her frequent guest, Scarce shuns me. 1857Willmott Pleas. Lit. xi. 49 Of course, the frequent writer will in time be quick. 1886Ruskin Præterita I. vii. 211 The Professor was a frequent guest at my grandmother's tea-table.
†c. That is often in company with (a person); familiar; conversant in (a subject). Obs.
c1600Shakes. Sonn. cxvii, Accuse me thus..That I haue frequent binne with vnknowne mindes. 1615J. Stephens Satyr. Ess. 214 A talkative Barber: with whome he is the more frequent. 1631Heywood Eng. Eliz. (1641) 52 He was..In the liberall arts so frequent, that they appeared rather innate and born with him, then..acquired. 1632― 2nd Pt. Iron Age To Rdr., Wks. 1874 III. 352 Euery hard name, which may appeare obscure or intricate to such as are not frequent in Poetry.
7. quasi-adv. (Also, in illiterate use, as a real adv. = Frequently, often.)
1614Selden Titles Hon. 6 Such like more occurre in ancient and later Storie very frequent. 1784Cowper Task ii. 61 Th' old And crazy earth has had her shaking fits More frequent. 1810Scott Lady of L. i. 490 Nor frequent does the bright oar break The darkening mirror of the lake. 1870B. Harte Truthf. James ii, But his smile it was pensive and childlike, As I frequent remarked to Bill Nye.
Hence ˈfrequentness, the state or condition of being frequent; frequency.
1664H. More Expos. Seven Churches c 7 a, The more-then-ordinary frequentness of burning the blessed Protestant Martyrs..in this Period. 1668― Div. Dial. ii. viii. 217 Admit the necessity of dying, what necessity or conveniency of the frequentness of Diseases? 1862Burton Bk. Hunter 344 The frequentness of saintship among the Irish.
▸ frequent flyer n. (a) a person who regularly travels by aeroplane, esp. on the same route or with the same airline; (b) attrib., designating or relating to a consumer incentive scheme under which credits accumulated with qualifying transactions (originally flights booked with the same airline) are redeemable against the cost of future travel and other leisure services; cf. air mile n. 2.
1980Business Week (Nexis) 28 Apr. 104 Pan American..gave international passengers souvenir plates last summer,..but discarded the idea after *frequent fliers complained about getting duplicates. 1981Washington Post (Nexis) 25 Oct. e1 Delta's ‘Frequent Flyer’ program, which requires travelers to sign up ahead of time, is less generous than Northwest's. 1988Los Angeles Times 7 Feb. vii. 9/1 With the latest round of triple mileage offers to frequent fliers, the airlines have finally, it seems, taken leave of their senses... The hazard is that the airlines are running up an indebtedness to frequent-flier club members of hundreds of millions..of miles. 2000D. Brooks Bobos in Paradise 149 Airborne academics hop from conference to conference, racking up frequent flyer miles and comparing notes on duty-free opportunities around the globe.
▪ III. frequent, v.|frɪˈkwɛnt|
[ad. L. frequentāre, f. frequent-em frequent. Cf. F. fréquenter (recorded from 12th c.).]
1. trans. To visit or make use of (a place) often; to resort to habitually; to attend (a meeting, etc.).
1555Eden Decades 320 The nauigation to India was then wel knowen and frequented. 1585Abp. Sandys Serm. xv. 266 Many..haue frequented sermons with appearance of great deuotion. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 769 This house is fiftie or threescore yards long, frequented onely by Priests. 1694Gibson in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 227 He constantly frequented the Presbyterian meetings. 1711Steele Spect. No. 148 ⁋4 A Coffee-house which I myself frequent. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 193 Some of those ways through the hills were much frequented. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. i. §11 Proper ideas or materials are only to be got by frequenting good company. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1888) III. 248 Drawing in the academy, which was then frequented, though established only by private contributions among the artists. 1834L. Hunt Town iv. (1848) 191 The Church of St. Clement Danes..was the one most frequented by Dr. Johnson. 1860Merc. Marine Mag. VII. 213 Whales of the species called ‘California Greys’, frequent this..bay.
2. To visit or associate with (a person); to be frequently with (a person) or in (his company). Now somewhat rare.
1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 123 Frequente and haunte the companyes of wysemen and not of the riche. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 293 If you frequent the companie of Crates, a man indued with rare wisdome. 1580Sidney Ps. xxvi. iii, I did not them frequent, Who be to vainesse bent. 1616in J. Brown Bunyan i. (1887) 4 He doth frequent and keep company with Margarett Bennett. 1683Penn Wks. (1782) IV. 307 Nor do their husbands frequent them till that time [their month] be expired. a1734North Lives (1826) II. 192 His Lordship had one friend that used to frequent him much. 1889Lowell Latest Lit. Ess. (1892) 145 It is for other and greater virtues that I would frequent the Greeks.
†b. Of a disease: To attack often. Obs. rare—1.
1632tr. Bruel's Praxis Med. 59 This disease..doth frequent children.
†3. To use habitually or repeatedly; to practise.
1485Caxton Chas. Gt. 29 Charles..by ardaunt desyre frequented the bookes composed vpon the crysten fayth. 1541Bible (Cranmer) title-p., The Byble in Englyshe..to be frequented and used in everye Churche within this his sayd realme. 1546Langley tr. Pol. Verg. de Invert. i. xi. 226 The Great Prophet Dauid, whiche songe the Misteries of God in Meter frequented Singing. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. Epit. A, Vertue and commendable behaviour, was of them both so frequented and followed. 1614W. B. Philosopher's Banquet (ed. 2) 105 The oyle of Oliues they..frequented..sparingly. 1642W. Bird Mag. Hon. 55 And after that the word Baron seemeth to be frequented in this Realm in lieu and place of the word Thane. 1665–7Dryden Ess. Dram. Poesy (1668) 43 A Play which has been frequented the most of any he has writ.
†b. To celebrate (a sacrament, etc.); to honour with observances. Cf. F. fréquenter. Obs.
a1555,1669[see the vbl. n.]. 1565Jewel Repl. Harding (1611) 375 He gaue the Image of his Passion to be frequented [celebrandam] in the Church. 1579Fulke Refut. Rastel 723 The Christians did solemnelye frequent the memories of the martyrs. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 343 b, God did institute in his Church two Sacramentes..If we do not frequent these in that sincerity of Religion..Let us be condemned.
†c. refl. To busy oneself about something. Obs.
a1562G. Cavendish Wolsey (1893) 216 He dayly frequentyng hymeself abought suche busynes and deeds of honest charitie.
†4. To familiarize with. Obs. [Cf. frequent a. 6 b.]
1588Exhort. to H.M. faithful Subjects in Harl. Misc. II. 93 Ye encounter with them that are rich, hardy, resolute, and frequented with daily victories. 1632Lithgow Trav. v. 219 [The Armenians practised certain vices] which my conscience commands me to conceale: least I frequent this Northern world with that which their nature never knew.
†5. intr. To resort to or unto (a person or place); to associate with (a person); to be often in or about (a place). Obs.
1577Hanmer Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1619) 96 An infinite multitude..frequented vnto Paulus. 1580Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 467, I frequented more often to Camilla. 1599Sir R. Wrothe in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. III. 181 Sertaine lewde fellowes..which doe frequente and use aboute Layton heath. 1651tr. Life Father Sarpi (1676) 67 He frequented much with Fra. Antonio da Viterbo. 1660tr. Amyraldus' Treat. conc. Relig. i. vii. 123 Will she frequent in Towns, or will she resort to unhabited places? 1725Pope Odyss. v. 128 Far from all the ways Where men frequent. 1810Scott Lady of L. i. xxv, Nor track nor pathway might declare That human foot frequented there.
†6. trans.
a. To crowd or pack closely together.
b. To crowd, fill (a place).
c. To supply abundantly. Obs.
1578[see frequented ppl. a.]. 1596Drayton Legends ii. 253 These brimfull Eyes With Tydes of Teares continually frequented. 1667Milton P.L. x. 1091 With tears Watering the ground, and with our sighs the air Frequenting. 1682R. Burton Admir. Cur. (1684) 82 Winchester is a City which flourished in the time of the Romans and now indifferently peopled, and frequented by water.
Hence freˈquenting vbl. n.
a1555Ridley in Confer. betw. Ridley & Latymer (1556) 16 b, The..institution of our sauior Christe, for the ofte frequenting of the remembrance of his deathe. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 138 b, As touchyng Luthers frequentyng of Hyperbolicall speaches. 1669Woodhead St. Teresa i. xix. (1671) 119 Here comes in the frequenting of the Sacraments. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 376 Birds, by whose frequentings he arrives to the top of his hopes. 1870Lubbock Orig. Civiliz. v. 163 Which may be known from ordinary snakes by certain signs, such as their frequenting huts, not eating mice [etc.]. |