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▪ I. cete1|siːt|
[a. OF. cete, fem., ad. L. cētus whale, in pl. cētē neut. a. Gr. κήτη, κήτεα whales: see quot. 1802.]
A whale, a sea-monster.
c1220Bestiary 513 in O.E. Misc. 16 Ðis cete ðanne hise chaueles lukeð. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiii. xxvi. (1495) 463 The whale is callyd Cete. 1802Bingley Anim. Biog. (1813) I. 22 Cete or Whales. 1854Badham Halieut. 205 This real cete of a scomber measured thirty-two feet lengthways, and had..a girth of sixteen feet.
▪ II. † cete2 Obs.
[possibly ad. L. cœtus (in med. spelling cetus) meeting, assembly, company.]
A ‘company’ of badgers.
1486Bk. St. Albans F vj a, A Cete of Graies. 1801Strutt Sports & Past. i. i. 19. [ 1886Standard 13 Oct., Keeping what the old writers used to call a ‘cete of badgers’.] |