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Middle English
Etymology
From Latin sēduct-, past-participle stem of sēdūcō.[1]
Verb
seduct
- (hapax) to seduce
1490, “How Eneas encyted the patrons & maysters of his shippes for to depart. Capitulum xxvijo.”, in William Caxton, transl., edited by M T Culley and F[rederick] J[ames] Furnivall, Caxton’s Eneydos, 1490, Englisht from the French Liure des Eneydes, 1483, London: Published for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner & Co., , published 1890, page 97, lines 12–14:[…] the false & euyl man eneas, that tratoursly hath mocked me, & fraudulently seducted / […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
- M[athew] T[ewart] Culley and F[rederick] J[ames] Furnivall, editors (1890), Caxton’s Eneydos, 1490, Englisht from the French Liure des Eneydes, 1483, London: Published for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner & Co., , page 185: “Seduct, vb. t. seduce, 97/14.”
- ^ James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “† Sedu·ct”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VIII, Part 2 (S–Sh), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 376, column 1: “f. L. sēduct-, ppl. stem of sēdūcĕre.”