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the Strong
(b) the Strong: used postpositively with personal names of historical, mythological, or legendary figures.Sometimes merging with sense 5a(b).
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OE Ælfric Old Test. Summary: Judges (Laud) xvi. 4 in S. J. Crawford Old Eng. Version of Heptateuch (1922) 412 Ða hæðenan Philistei beheton hira [read hire] sceattas, wið þam þe heo beswice Samson þone strangan.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 13849 He com a þan ende þer fæht Kinard þe stronge.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 181 Samson þe stronge.
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 7704 And Sampson also, þe stronge [a1425 Linc. Inn þeo fort].
1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades iii. 52 It is Aiax the strong, Who is best hope, defence and wall, that to the Greeks belong.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis x, in tr. Virgil Wks. 529 Orses the strong to greater Strength must yield.
1761 ‘Euthelius’ Relig. represented in True Light 181 Sampson the strong, and Solomon the wise, Warn us nor Strength nor Wisdom t'o'erprize.
1892 E. E. Hale & S. Hale Story of Spain x. 144 On the scroll the king read that the man was Hercules the Strong.
1917 A. Cahan Rise of David Levinsky i. iv. 22 When you are a man you will be strong as Samson the Strong.
1969 J. B. Beer Blake's Visionary Universe ii. 44 Both his greatest sons, Paris the beautiful and Hector the strong, were to fail more disastrously.
2005 T. Severin Viking: Sworn Brother 165 Did you really think that you could defeat Grettir the Strong?
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the Strong
(b) the Strong: used postpositively with personal names of historical, mythological, or legendary figures.Sometimes merging with sense 1a(b).
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c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10414 Swa wes Childriche þan strongen [c1300 Otho strange] & þan riche.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 2381 And for Strasagirs þe strang he of his strenth priued.
1567 Triall of Treasure sig. D Recorde of Dionisius, a king of much fame, Of the valiaunt Alexander, and Caesar the strong.
1700 J. Astry tr. D. de Saavedra Fajardo Royal Politician I. xlix. 355 Don Lopez de Haro being disgusted by King Sancho the Strong, reveng'd himself in the Treaties of Peace between that King, and Peter III. King of Arragon.
1818 London Lit. Gaz. 12 Sept. 591/2 During the assembly of the diet in Dresden, Augustus the Strong invited several of the principal members to an entertainment.
1843 tr. A. L. L. de Custine Empire of Czar II. xix. 144 Peter the Great, whom I should prefer to call Peter the Strong,..thus crushed the spirit of feudalism.
1903 H. E. Legge Short Hist. Anc. Greek Sculptors iii. 31 She was there worshipped as Athena the Strong.
1978 R. Anderson Getting up & going Home xxxi. 273 She was Catherine the strong, whose ancestors had beaten across the plains with handcarts.
1996 B. M. Mitchell & R. E. Salsbury Multicultural Educ. xxxviii. 308 Charles XII (known as Charles the Strong) embarked on a number of military ventures during the early 1800s.
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