margent

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑː(ɹ)d͡ʒənt/

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Noun

margent (plural margents)

1. (obsolete, poetic) margin; edge
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

     Nothing but this! Yes, as much love in rime
     As would be cramm'd up in a sheet of paper
     Writ o' both sides the leaf, margent and all,
     That he was fain to seal on Cupid's name.

   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

     Examine every married lineament,
     And see how one another lends content
     And what obscured in this fair volume lies
     Find written in the margent of his eyes.

   • 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:

     Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen
     Within thy airy shell
     By slow Meander's margent green

   • 1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 38:

     All the ancient Inscriptions are entertoilees with Snakes, e. g. as in the margent.

Verb

margent (third-person singular simple present margents, present participle margenting, simple past and past participle margented)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To note in the margin.

Anagrams

• garment

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maʁʒ/

Verb

margent

1. third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of marger

Anagrams

• germant