weann.

Brit.

/wiːn/, U.S.

/win/, Scottish English

/win/

Forms: Also 1800s ween, wain, wane.

Etymology: A contraction of wee ane: (see wee adj. and one adj., n., and pron.), the full form still appearing in the first group of quotations. In the north-eastern Scottish counties the equivalent little ane has similarly given littlan, littlen.

Scottish and dialect.

A young child.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > child > [noun]

wenchelc890

childeOE

littleOE

littlingOE

hired-childc1275

smalla1300

brolla1325

innocentc1325

chickc1330

congeonc1330

impc1380

faunt1382

young onec1384

scionc1390

weea1400

birdc1405

chickenc1440

enfaunta1475

small boyc1475

whelp1483

burden1490

little one1509

brat?a1513

younkerkin1528

kitling1541

urchin1556

loneling1579

breed1586

budling1587

pledge?1587

ragazzo1591

simplicity1592

bantling1593

tadpole1594

two-year-old1594

bratcheta1600

lambkin1600

younker1601

dandling1611

buda1616

eyas-musketa1616

dovelinga1618

whelplinga1618

puppet1623

butter printa1625

chit1625

piggy1625

ninnyc1626

youngster1633

fairya1635

lap-child1655

chitterling1675

squeaker1676

cherub1680

kid1690

wean1692

kinchin1699

getlingc1700

totum17..

charity-child1723

small girl1734

poult1739

elfin1748

piggy-wiggy1766

piccaninny1774

suck-thumb18..

teeny1802

olive1803

sprout1813

stumpie1820

sexennarian1821

totty1822

toddle1825

toddles1828

poppet1830

brancher1833

toad1836

toddler1837

ankle-biter1840

yarkera1842

twopenny1844

weeny1844

tottykins1849

toddlekins1852

brattock1858

nipper1859

sprat1860

ninepins1862

angelet1868

tenas man1870

tad1877

tacker1885

chavvy1886

joey1887

toddleskin1890

thumb-sucker1891

littlie1893

peewee1894

tyke1894

che-ild1896

kiddo1896

mother's bairn1896

childling1903

kipper1905

pick1905

small1907

God forbid1909

preadolescent1909

subadolescent1914

toto1914

snookums1919

tweenie1919

problem child1920

squirt1924

trottie1924

tiddler1927

subteen1929

perisher1935

poopsie1937

pre-schooler1937

pre-teen1938

pre-teener1940

juvie1941

sprog1944

pikkie1945

subteenager1947

pre-teenager1948

pint-size1954

saucepan lid1960

rug rat1964

smallie1984

bosom-child-

α.

1692 ‘J. Curate’ Sc. Presbyterian Eloquence 104 The very wie-ones [margin. Little Children] were then so serious that [etc.].

1721 A. Ramsay Poems I. Gloss. 397 Wean, or wee ane, a Child.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at Wee In Scotland it denotes small or little; as wee ane, a little one, or child.

1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess i. 6 The name the wean [1789 weeane] gat, was Helenore.

1773 R. Fergusson Poems 119 Then there's sic yellowchin and din, Wi' wives and wee-anes gablin.

β. 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd ii. iii When Bessy Freetock's chuffy-cheeked We'an To a Fairy turn'd.1728 A. Ramsay Anacreontic on Love 8 A poor young Wean.1789 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 491 To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That's the true Pathos and Sublime Of Human life.a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 219 Wi' weans I'm mair than weel contented, Heav'n sent me ane mae than I wanted.1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iii*, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 108 There was my daughter's wean, little Eppie Daidle.1822 J. Galt Provost xxiv. 179 The major part were sailors' wives and weans.1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Weens, children. Little ones. ‘How are the weens?’1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxvi, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 755 Returnin' back hame, the wife and weans are at the door.1842 R. H. Barham Nell Cook!! in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 133 So bless the Queen and her Royal Weans.1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh iii. 122 I being but a yearling wean.1887 P. McNeill Blawearie 85 Here comes that great grumpus crying like a wane once more.1900 Cent. Mag. Feb. 601/2 But poor Shamus he had a wife an' a congregation of wains on his han's.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

weanv.

Brit.

/wiːn/, U.S.

/win/

Forms: Old English wenian, Middle English–1500s wene, Middle English–1600s wain(e, wane, Middle English–1600s wayn(e, weyn(e, 1500s ween, 1500s–1600s wein(e, weane, 1500s– wean.

Etymology: Old English węnian to accustom (once only, to wean), corresponding to Old Frisian wennia , Old Saxon wennian (Middle Low German, Middle Dutch, modern Dutch wennen ), Old High German wennen (Middle High German wenen , modern German -wöhnen ), Old Norse venja (Swedish vänja , Danish vænne ) < Old Germanic *wanjan , < *wano- accustomed (Old Norse van-r ); cognate with Old Norse vane weak masculine, custom, habit. For the Germanic root *wan- : *wun- , to be accustomed, to dwell, see wane n.², wone n.², wont n.¹The Old English węnian occurs very frequently in the sense ‘to accustom’, but this use is not illustrated here, as it did not survive into Middle English The sense ‘to wean (a child)’ was ordinarily expressed in Old English by áwęnian (compare German entwöhnen), and occasionally by gewęnian.

1. transitive. To accustom (a child or young animal) to the loss of its mother's milk; to cause to cease to be suckled.

a. with object a child.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feed or nourish [verb (transitive)] > wean

weanc960

spanea1340

spean1595

ablactate1754

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > do habitually [verb (transitive)] > accustom (a person)

weanc960

wonc1175

to teach to1297

usec1300

usec1405

accustom1422

wontc1440

custom?c1450

enure1489

inure1489

induce1490

habituate1530

ure1530

usage1530

trade1539

to trade up1556

exercise1558

flesh1591

habit?1615

habitate1621

occasion1684

usen1715

usen1861

ethize1876

c960 Æthelwold Rule St. Benet vii. 22 Agyld þu me, drihten, mid biternesse lean, swa swa moder deþ hyre bearne, þonne hio hit fram hire breosta gesoce weneþ.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Hosea i. 8 And she wenyde hir [L. et ablactavit eam] that was With outen mercye.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Tollem. MS) vi. vi The childe is propirly clepid ‘puer’, when he is wained from milke and departid from þe breste.

a1400 R. Rolle Psalter cxxx. 4 As a childe þat has nede to be on his modur kne and fostird with hur mylke, perisch if he be wenyd [earlier MS. spaned] & takyn fro mylke.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 3018 Whenne he was wened [Vesp., Gött. spaned; Fairf. sponed] fro þe pappe.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 522/1 Wene chylder fro sokynge, ablacto, elacto.

c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 231 Whan þe modyr wanyth here child, sche wetyth here tetys wyth sum byttere thyng.

c1450 Mirk's Festial 16 Then aftyr, when scho was wened, þay broght hur to þe tempull.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 770/2 I wayne a chylde from soukyng, Je seure.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 158/1 Before the childe that is borne be wayned.

1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. iii. 26 Tis since the Earth-quake nowe eleauen yeares, and she was weand .

1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xxiv. xxiv. 913 If the childe be weake, sickly, or feeble, he ought not to be weaned.

a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 526 Untill shee be wayned, which must be at three yeers end, shee shall remaine with you in her fathers house.

1652 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged 178 It is much used to dry up the Milk in Womens breasts when they have weyned their children.

1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. ii. 223 As soon as they perceive their strength and appetite begin to fail, they ought immediately to wean the child.

1888 M. E. Braddon Fatal Three I. iii. 34 His wife would return to him as soon as Lady Castle-Connell's daughter was weaned.

absolute.1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XII xxi. 15 Unless a man can calculate his means Of feeding brats the moment his wife weans.

b. with object a young animal.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [verb (transitive)] > wean young animals

wean1481

1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 33 Reynart..said thus..Neuertheles yet was I vnto the tyme that I was wened fro the tete.

1485 in Descr. Catal. Anc. Deeds (1890) I. 359 William and Agnes to have the calves of them and thei to be weynyd at the age of x. wekes.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxi It is tyme to wayne theyr lambes whan they be .xvi. wekes olde.

?1530 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry (rev. ed.) f. xxix Yf thou wayne thy calues with hey, it wyll make them haue great belyes.

1575 A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucolics i. 2 Our Lambs new weined from y^e dam.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 250 Take all and weane it, it may proue an Oxe.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. v. 23 Adding to the end of these great houses a little one, to keepe calues in of both kindes, which you haue wained.

1759 R. Brown Compl. Farmer 22 The best time for weaning calves is from January to May.

1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 193 The meal or flour mixed with milk..is excellent food for weaning calves.

1908 S. J. Weyman Wild Geese xviii. 282 The low of a cow whose calf was being weaned.

c. in figurative context.

ΚΠ

c1571 E. Campion Two Bks. Hist. Ireland (1963) ii. x. 146 No doubte the verye name and reputacion therof would have been a spurr to theis erections, as nurses for babes to sucke in till they might repaier thether [sc. to the University] to be weaned.

1584 J. Lyly Alexander, Campaspe, & Diogenes iii. iv. sig. D2 Reason [must] weane what appetite noursed.

1592 tr. F. Du Jon Apocalypsis xii. 1 Vntil that time wherin this Church were as it were weyned & taken away from the breast or milk of her mother.

1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. xiv. 267 I put my love out to nurse, instead of weaning it.

d. transferred.

ΚΠ

1615 J. Stephens Satyrical Ess. 53 As Wormewood, rubbed upon the nipple of a Nurses Teate, weanes the childe.

1618 W. Lawson New Orchard & Garden xii. 42 The tree ouer-loaden with fruit, and wanting sappe to feede all she hath brought foorth, will waine all shee cannot feede, like a woman bringing foorth mo children at once, then she hath teats.

1618 W. Lawson New Orchard & Garden xv. 51.

a. figurative. To detach or alienate (a person, his desires or affections) from some accustomed object of pursuit or enjoyment; to reconcile by degrees to the privation of something.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > unaccustomedness or state of disuse > give up a habit or practice [verb (transitive)] > cause one to or disaccustom

unwone1340

disuse1489

discustom1502

wean1526

disaccustom1530

uncustom1530

unaccustom1580

unwont1580

to break (any one) of a practice or habit1612

disinure1613

unhitch1622

unhabit1650

dishabituate1869

wean1891

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. CCiiii By obedience they were wayned frome this worlde.

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) iii. 157 If they thinke them fit to enter into religion, the mother, who ought to haue cheefe charge of them, must seeke to waine them from all worldlie vanities.

1607 M. Drayton Legend Cromwel 9 When first the wealthie Netherlands mee train'd In wise commerce..And from my countrie carefully me wain'd.

1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse B 7 b Hee must wisely defeate, and waine his appetite of all such dainty morsels.

1608 Merry Deuill of Edmonton ii. iii. 22 You are enioynd to waine your friendship from mee.

1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) i. i, in Wks. I. 4 How happie, yet, should I esteeme my selfe Could I (by any practise) weane the boy From one vaine course of studie, he affects.

1670 T. Brookes London's Lament. 192 Luther was a man weaned from the world; and therefore when honours, preferments, and riches were offered to him, he despised them.

1741 G. Berkeley Let. in Wks. (1871) IV. 266 A long continuance of ill health has weaned me from the world.

1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle IV. xciv. 11 He endeavoured to wean his eyes from the fatal object.

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 327 I trust the plan I have devised will be effectual in weaning my daughter from this absurd idea.

1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. 296 Mankind cannot be weaned from the opinion.

1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire IV. xxxiii. 15 Already men's minds were becoming weaned from positive belief in the concrete divinities of Olympus.

1876 R. Bridges Growth of Love xxxv Few there be are wean'd from earthly love.

1907 C. S. Parker Sir J. Graham I. i. 4 He..strove with some success to wean his tenantry from thriftless habits.

absolute.1850 F. W. Robertson Serm. 3rd Ser. viii. 108 The consequences of sin are meant to wean from sin.

b. with away.

ΘΚΠ

unwone1340

disuse1489

discustom1502

wean1526

disaccustom1530

uncustom1530

unaccustom1580

unwont1580

to break (any one) of a practice or habit1612

disinure1613

unhitch1622

unhabit1650

dishabituate1869

wean1891

1891 F. H. Williams Atman v. 270 I deliberately planned to wean you away from Margaret.

1913 W. Wilson New Freedom ix. 203 If they refuse to be weaned away from their independence they cannot continue to enjoy the benefits extended to them.

c. reflexive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > unaccustomedness or state of disuse > disaccustom [verb (reflexive)]

weana1616

diswonta1661

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iv. v. 17 And I the rather waine me from dispaire For loue of Edwards Off-spring in my wombe.

1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xli. 84 Before I wean my self from Italy, a word or two touching the genius of the Nation.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 27. ⁋2 Let us not stand upon a Formal taking of Leave, but wean our selves from them [sc. the allurements of the world], while we are in the midst of them.

1725 Visct. Bolingbroke Let. 24 July in J. Swift Lett. (1766) II. 284 If your heart tells you nothing, say nothing, that I may take the hint, and wean myself from you by degrees.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iii. §4. 131 A love of secular learning from which Edmund [Rich] found it hard to wean himself.

d. intransitive for reflexive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > unaccustomedness or state of disuse > detach a person from a habit [verb (intransitive)]

weanc1665

c1665 L. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1973) 34 While she was weaning from the friends and places she had so long converst in.

1827 T. Hood Hero & Leander vi, in Plea Midsummer Fairies & Other Poems 71 Leander, weaning from sweet Hero's side, Must leave a widow where he found a bride.

†3. To dissuade (whether successfully or not).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > demotivation > demotivate [verb (transitive)] > dissuade

revoke1447

dehorta1533

dishort1549

dissuade?c1550

charma1592

wean1607

to steer off1662

remonstrate1819

dispersuade1951

1607 R. Parker Scholasticall Disc. against Antichrist i. iii. 139 They wayned the people from this hipocrisie by these reproofes in vaine.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy Democritus to Rdr. 38 Tell an Epicure,..of his irregular course, weine him from it a little.

4. To remove or abate gradually (a desire, affection). rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > reduce in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (transitive)] > reduce gradually

to wane away1601

wear1697

wean1707

whittle1736

to tail off (out)1827

to ease off1884

to taper off (away, down)1898

to run down1960

to wind down1969

1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 35 He weans by degrees his Longings after the Flesh-pots of Sodom.

1842 Lady Lyttelton Corr. (1912) 327 The [baby] Princess has exactly..the same ‘morbid’ love of one nursery-maid, as Meriel has for you. That is to be weaned, I think, by a little less fondling her yourself.

†5. To train, accustom to (good habits). Obsolete. [Not a survival of the Old English sense (see the etymology); the use seems to have been developed from the notion of ‘weaning’ from the contrary evil.]

ΚΠ

1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 61^v When the Father weaneth [later edd. warneth] them to continencie, the flatterer allureth them to lust.

1579 T. Lodge Protogenes 8 Weane thy selfe to wisedome, and vse thy tallant in zeale not for enuie.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxi. 202 The Iewes by reason of their long aboade in a place of continuall seruile toyle could not suddainely be wained and drawne vnto contrarie offices without some strong impression of terror.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	wean
释义	weann. Brit. /wiːn/, U.S. /win/, Scottish English /win/ Forms: Also 1800s ween, wain, wane. Etymology: A contraction of wee ane: (see wee adj. and one adj., n., and pron.), the full form still appearing in the first group of quotations. In the north-eastern Scottish counties the equivalent little ane has similarly given littlan, littlen. Scottish and dialect. A young child. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > [noun] wenchelc890 childeOE littleOE littlingOE hired-childc1275 smalla1300 brolla1325 innocentc1325 chickc1330 congeonc1330 impc1380 faunt1382 young onec1384 scionc1390 weea1400 birdc1405 chickenc1440 enfaunta1475 small boyc1475 whelp1483 burden1490 little one1509 brat?a1513 younkerkin1528 kitling1541 urchin1556 loneling1579 breed1586 budling1587 pledge?1587 ragazzo1591 simplicity1592 bantling1593 tadpole1594 two-year-old1594 bratcheta1600 lambkin1600 younker1601 dandling1611 buda1616 eyas-musketa1616 dovelinga1618 whelplinga1618 puppet1623 butter printa1625 chit1625 piggy1625 ninnyc1626 youngster1633 fairya1635 lap-child1655 chitterling1675 squeaker1676 cherub1680 kid1690 wean1692 kinchin1699 getlingc1700 totum17.. charity-child1723 small girl1734 poult1739 elfin1748 piggy-wiggy1766 piccaninny1774 suck-thumb18.. teeny1802 olive1803 sprout1813 stumpie1820 sexennarian1821 totty1822 toddle1825 toddles1828 poppet1830 brancher1833 toad1836 toddler1837 ankle-biter1840 yarkera1842 twopenny1844 weeny1844 tottykins1849 toddlekins1852 brattock1858 nipper1859 sprat1860 ninepins1862 angelet1868 tenas man1870 tad1877 tacker1885 chavvy1886 joey1887 toddleskin1890 thumb-sucker1891 littlie1893 peewee1894 tyke1894 che-ild1896 kiddo1896 mother's bairn1896 childling1903 kipper1905 pick1905 small1907 God forbid1909 preadolescent1909 subadolescent1914 toto1914 snookums1919 tweenie1919 problem child1920 squirt1924 trottie1924 tiddler1927 subteen1929 perisher1935 poopsie1937 pre-schooler1937 pre-teen1938 pre-teener1940 juvie1941 sprog1944 pikkie1945 subteenager1947 pre-teenager1948 pint-size1954 saucepan lid1960 rug rat1964 smallie1984 bosom-child- α. 1692 ‘J. Curate’ Sc. Presbyterian Eloquence 104 The very wie-ones [margin. Little Children] were then so serious that [etc.]. 1721 A. Ramsay Poems I. Gloss. 397 Wean, or wee ane, a Child. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at Wee In Scotland it denotes small or little; as wee ane, a little one, or child. 1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess i. 6 The name the wean [1789 weeane] gat, was Helenore. 1773 R. Fergusson Poems 119 Then there's sic yellowchin and din, Wi' wives and wee-anes gablin. β. 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd ii. iii When Bessy Freetock's chuffy-cheeked We'an To a Fairy turn'd.1728 A. Ramsay Anacreontic on Love 8 A poor young Wean.1789 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 491 To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That's the true Pathos and Sublime Of Human life.a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 219 Wi' weans I'm mair than weel contented, Heav'n sent me ane mae than I wanted.1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iii, in Tales of my Landlord* 2nd Ser. I. 108 There was my daughter's wean, little Eppie Daidle.1822 J. Galt Provost xxiv. 179 The major part were sailors' wives and weans.1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Weens, children. Little ones. ‘How are the weens?’1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxvi, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 755 Returnin' back hame, the wife and weans are at the door.1842 R. H. Barham Nell Cook!! in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 133 So bless the Queen and her Royal Weans.1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh iii. 122 I being but a yearling wean.1887 P. McNeill Blawearie 85 Here comes that great grumpus crying like a wane once more.1900 Cent. Mag. Feb. 601/2 But poor Shamus he had a wife an' a congregation of wains on his han's. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). weanv. Brit. /wiːn/, U.S. /win/ Forms: Old English wenian, Middle English–1500s wene, Middle English–1600s wain(e, wane, Middle English–1600s wayn(e, weyn(e, 1500s ween, 1500s–1600s wein(e, weane, 1500s– wean. Etymology: Old English węnian to accustom (once only, to wean), corresponding to Old Frisian wennia , Old Saxon wennian (Middle Low German, Middle Dutch, modern Dutch wennen ), Old High German wennen (Middle High German wenen , modern German -wöhnen ), Old Norse venja (Swedish vänja , Danish vænne ) < Old Germanic wanjan , < wano- accustomed (Old Norse van-r ); cognate with Old Norse vane weak masculine, custom, habit. For the Germanic root wan- : wun- , to be accustomed, to dwell, see wane n.², wone n.², wont n.¹The Old English węnian occurs very frequently in the sense ‘to accustom’, but this use is not illustrated here, as it did not survive into Middle English The sense ‘to wean (a child)’ was ordinarily expressed in Old English by áwęnian (compare German entwöhnen), and occasionally by gewęnian. 1. transitive. To accustom (a child or young animal) to the loss of its mother's milk; to cause to cease to be suckled. a. with object a child. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feed or nourish [verb (transitive)] > wean weanc960 spanea1340 spean1595 ablactate1754 the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > do habitually [verb (transitive)] > accustom (a person) weanc960 wonc1175 to teach to1297 usec1300 usec1405 accustom1422 wontc1440 custom?c1450 enure1489 inure1489 induce1490 habituate1530 ure1530 usage1530 trade1539 to trade up1556 exercise1558 flesh1591 habit?1615 habitate1621 occasion1684 usen1715 usen1861 ethize1876 c960 Æthelwold Rule St. Benet vii. 22 Agyld þu me, drihten, mid biternesse lean, swa swa moder deþ hyre bearne, þonne hio hit fram hire breosta gesoce weneþ. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Hosea i. 8 And she wenyde hir [L. et ablactavit eam] that was With outen mercye. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Tollem. MS) vi. vi The childe is propirly clepid ‘puer’, when he is wained from milke and departid from þe breste. a1400 R. Rolle Psalter cxxx. 4 As a childe þat has nede to be on his modur kne and fostird with hur mylke, perisch if he be wenyd [earlier MS. spaned] & takyn fro mylke. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 3018 Whenne he was wened [Vesp., Gött. spaned; Fairf. sponed] fro þe pappe. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 522/1 Wene chylder fro sokynge, ablacto, elacto. c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 231 Whan þe modyr wanyth here child, sche wetyth here tetys wyth sum byttere thyng. c1450 Mirk's Festial 16 Then aftyr, when scho was wened, þay broght hur to þe tempull. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 770/2 I wayne a chylde from soukyng, Je seure. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 158/1 Before the childe that is borne be wayned. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. iii. 26 Tis since the Earth-quake nowe eleauen yeares, and she was weand . View more context for this quotation 1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xxiv. xxiv. 913 If the childe be weake, sickly, or feeble, he ought not to be weaned. a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 526 Untill shee be wayned, which must be at three yeers end, shee shall remaine with you in her fathers house. 1652 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged 178 It is much used to dry up the Milk in Womens breasts when they have weyned their children. 1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. ii. 223 As soon as they perceive their strength and appetite begin to fail, they ought immediately to wean the child. 1888 M. E. Braddon Fatal Three I. iii. 34 His wife would return to him as soon as Lady Castle-Connell's daughter was weaned. absolute.1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XII xxi. 15 Unless a man can calculate his means Of feeding brats the moment his wife weans. b. with object a young animal. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [verb (transitive)] > wean young animals wean1481 1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 33 Reynart..said thus..Neuertheles yet was I vnto the tyme that I was wened fro the tete. 1485 in Descr. Catal. Anc. Deeds (1890) I. 359 William and Agnes to have the calves of them and thei to be weynyd at the age of x. wekes. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxi It is tyme to wayne theyr lambes whan they be .xvi. wekes olde. ?1530 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry (rev. ed.) f. xxix Yf thou wayne thy calues with hey, it wyll make them haue great belyes. 1575 A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucolics i. 2 Our Lambs new weined from y^e dam. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 250 Take all and weane it, it may proue an Oxe. View more context for this quotation 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. v. 23 Adding to the end of these great houses a little one, to keepe calues in of both kindes, which you haue wained. 1759 R. Brown Compl. Farmer 22 The best time for weaning calves is from January to May. 1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 193 The meal or flour mixed with milk..is excellent food for weaning calves. 1908 S. J. Weyman Wild Geese xviii. 282 The low of a cow whose calf was being weaned. c. in figurative context. ΚΠ c1571 E. Campion Two Bks. Hist. Ireland (1963) ii. x. 146 No doubte the verye name and reputacion therof would have been a spurr to theis erections, as nurses for babes to sucke in till they might repaier thether [sc. to the University] to be weaned. 1584 J. Lyly Alexander, Campaspe, & Diogenes iii. iv. sig. D2 Reason [must] weane what appetite noursed. 1592 tr. F. Du Jon Apocalypsis xii. 1 Vntil that time wherin this Church were as it were weyned & taken away from the breast or milk of her mother. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. xiv. 267 I put my love out to nurse, instead of weaning it. d. transferred. ΚΠ 1615 J. Stephens Satyrical Ess. 53 As Wormewood, rubbed upon the nipple of a Nurses Teate, weanes the childe. 1618 W. Lawson New Orchard & Garden xii. 42 The tree ouer-loaden with fruit, and wanting sappe to feede all she hath brought foorth, will waine all shee cannot feede, like a woman bringing foorth mo children at once, then she hath teats. 1618 W. Lawson New Orchard & Garden xv. 51. 2. a. figurative. To detach or alienate (a person, his desires or affections) from some accustomed object of pursuit or enjoyment; to reconcile by degrees to the privation of something. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > unaccustomedness or state of disuse > give up a habit or practice [verb (transitive)] > cause one to or disaccustom unwone1340 disuse1489 discustom1502 wean1526 disaccustom1530 uncustom1530 unaccustom1580 unwont1580 to break (any one) of a practice or habit1612 disinure1613 unhitch1622 unhabit1650 dishabituate1869 wean1891 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. CCiiii By obedience they were wayned frome this worlde. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) iii. 157 If they thinke them fit to enter into religion, the mother, who ought to haue cheefe charge of them, must seeke to waine them from all worldlie vanities. 1607 M. Drayton Legend Cromwel 9 When first the wealthie Netherlands mee train'd In wise commerce..And from my countrie carefully me wain'd. 1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse B 7 b Hee must wisely defeate, and waine his appetite of all such dainty morsels. 1608 Merry Deuill of Edmonton ii. iii. 22 You are enioynd to waine your friendship from mee. 1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) i. i, in Wks. I. 4 How happie, yet, should I esteeme my selfe Could I (by any practise) weane the boy From one vaine course of studie, he affects. 1670 T. Brookes London's Lament. 192 Luther was a man weaned from the world; and therefore when honours, preferments, and riches were offered to him, he despised them. 1741 G. Berkeley Let. in Wks. (1871) IV. 266 A long continuance of ill health has weaned me from the world. 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle IV. xciv. 11 He endeavoured to wean his eyes from the fatal object. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 327 I trust the plan I have devised will be effectual in weaning my daughter from this absurd idea. 1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. I. 296 Mankind cannot be weaned from the opinion. 1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire IV. xxxiii. 15 Already men's minds were becoming weaned from positive belief in the concrete divinities of Olympus. 1876 R. Bridges Growth of Love xxxv Few there be are wean'd from earthly love. 1907 C. S. Parker Sir J. Graham I. i. 4 He..strove with some success to wean his tenantry from thriftless habits. absolute.1850 F. W. Robertson Serm. 3rd Ser. viii. 108 The consequences of sin are meant to wean from sin. b. with away. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > unaccustomedness or state of disuse > give up a habit or practice [verb (transitive)] > cause one to or disaccustom unwone1340 disuse1489 discustom1502 wean1526 disaccustom1530 uncustom1530 unaccustom1580 unwont1580 to break (any one) of a practice or habit1612 disinure1613 unhitch1622 unhabit1650 dishabituate1869 wean1891 1891 F. H. Williams Atman v. 270 I deliberately planned to wean you away from Margaret. 1913 W. Wilson New Freedom ix. 203 If they refuse to be weaned away from their independence they cannot continue to enjoy the benefits extended to them. c. reflexive. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > unaccustomedness or state of disuse > disaccustom [verb (reflexive)] weana1616 diswonta1661 a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iv. v. 17 And I the rather waine me from dispaire For loue of Edwards Off-spring in my wombe. View more context for this quotation 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. xli. 84 Before I wean my self from Italy, a word or two touching the genius of the Nation. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 27. ⁋2 Let us not stand upon a Formal taking of Leave, but wean our selves from them [sc. the allurements of the world], while we are in the midst of them. 1725 Visct. Bolingbroke Let. 24 July in J. Swift Lett. (1766) II. 284 If your heart tells you nothing, say nothing, that I may take the hint, and wean myself from you by degrees. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iii. §4. 131 A love of secular learning from which Edmund [Rich] found it hard to wean himself. d. intransitive for reflexive. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > unaccustomedness or state of disuse > detach a person from a habit [verb (intransitive)] weanc1665 c1665 L. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1973) 34 While she was weaning from the friends and places she had so long converst in. 1827 T. Hood Hero & Leander vi, in Plea Midsummer Fairies & Other Poems 71 Leander, weaning from sweet Hero's side, Must leave a widow where he found a bride. †3. To dissuade (whether successfully or not). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > demotivation > demotivate [verb (transitive)] > dissuade revoke1447 dehorta1533 dishort1549 dissuade?c1550 charma1592 wean1607 to steer off1662 remonstrate1819 dispersuade1951 1607 R. Parker Scholasticall Disc. against Antichrist i. iii. 139 They wayned the people from this hipocrisie by these reproofes in vaine. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy Democritus to Rdr. 38 Tell an Epicure,..of his irregular course, weine him from it a little. 4. To remove or abate gradually (a desire, affection). rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > reduce in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (transitive)] > reduce gradually to wane away1601 wear1697 wean1707 whittle1736 to tail off (out)1827 to ease off1884 to taper off (away, down)1898 to run down1960 to wind down1969 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 35 He weans by degrees his Longings after the Flesh-pots of Sodom. 1842 Lady Lyttelton Corr. (1912) 327 The [baby] Princess has exactly..the same ‘morbid’ love of one nursery-maid, as Meriel has for you. That is to be weaned, I think, by a little less fondling her yourself. †5. To train, accustom to (good habits). Obsolete. [Not a survival of the Old English sense (see the etymology); the use seems to have been developed from the notion of ‘weaning’ from the contrary evil.] ΚΠ 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 61^v When the Father weaneth [later edd. warneth] them to continencie, the flatterer allureth them to lust. 1579 T. Lodge Protogenes 8 Weane thy selfe to wisedome, and vse thy tallant in zeale not for enuie. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxi. 202 The Iewes by reason of their long aboade in a place of continuall seruile toyle could not suddainely be wained and drawne vnto contrarie offices without some strong impression of terror. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1692v.c960
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