sdeign

English

Alternative forms

• 'sdain, sdein, sdeigne

Etymology

From Italian sdegnare, aphetic form of disdegnare; later also taken as a shortening of disdain.

Verb

sdeign (third-person singular simple present sdeigns, present participle sdeigning, simple past and past participle sdeigned)

1. (obsolete) To disdain. [16th–17th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Which when those knights beheld, with scornefull eye
     They sdeigned such lascivious disport,
     And loath'd the loose demeanure of that wanton sort.

Anagrams

• Edgins, deigns, design, dinges, gnides, nidges, signed, singed