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† aˈstart, v. Obs.
Forms: 3 asteorte, 5 asstart, 4–6 astert(e, astart(e. pa. tense 3 astirte, -orte, -urte, 4–5 astert(e, asterted.
[f. a- prefix 1 up + start v. In sense 3 prob. for atstart.]
1. intr. To start up.
1205Lay. 26045 Þe eotend up a-sturte [1250 vp a-storte]. c1380Sir Ferumb. 3399 Op a-sterte þe route anon. 1423James I King's Q. ii. xxi, Anon astert The blude of all my body to my hert. 1596Spenser F.Q. iii. ii. 29 Out of her bed she did astart.
2. intr. To start into existence, happen, fall out; with dat. of the person, afterwards taken as obj., and hence trans. To happen to, befall.
1393Gower Conf. II. 151 Though such an happe of love asterte. Ibid. I. 66 That thing shall never me asterte..To make her any feigned chere. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Nov. 187 No daunger there the shepheard can astert.
3. intr. To start off, get away, escape.
1250Lay. 4262 Ech man þat mihte a-steorte in to one borewe [1205 And he æt-sturte]. c1386Chaucer Frankl. T. 294 He seeth he may nat fro his deeth asterte. c1430Lydg. Bochas vii. v. 169 b, He might not asterte, He was so pursued. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. (1845) 65 You have me fettered; I may not asterte. a1541Wyatt Poet. Wks. (1861) 31 Let not this song from thee astart.
b. To remove, withdraw, desist.
c1400Song of Roland 68 Wyn went be-twen them, non did astert. c1450Lonelich Grail xxxviii. 230 But to God ȝoven preysenges, and not a-sterte. 1572Forrest Theoph. 334 Ye shall fynde me fyrme..not onse to astarte.
4. trans. (orig. with dat.) To escape, avoid, shun.
c1374Chaucer Troylus v. 1343 If ought amys mastart, [v.r. me start] Foryeve it me. c1386― Friar's T. 14 Ther might astert [v.r. astirte] him no pecunial peyne. c1450Lonelich Grail xxxi. 404 Thanne schal thyn enemy neuere the asterte. 1575Turberv. Venerie 138 [I] must needes please him by my death, I may it not astarte. |