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scanted, ppl. a.|ˈskæntɪd|
[f. scant v. + -ed1.]
In senses of the verb: Made scant or small, stinted, diminished, restricted, etc.
1594Marlowe & Nashe Dido i. A 4, And euery beast the forrest doth send forth, [shall] Bequeath her young ones to our scanted foode. 1605Shakes. Lear iii. ii. 67 While I to this hard house..returne, and force Their scanted curtesie. a1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 53 Wherein my Lord of Essex so wrought, by despising the number and quality of Rebels, that Norris was sent over with a scanted force. 1865Swinburne Poems & Ball., Two Dreams 112, I have no wit to shape in written rhymes A scanted tithe of this great joy they had. |