sticken

sticken

1. (obsolete, rare) past participle of stick
   • 1567, Matthew Parker, Sir Richard Morison, John Ponet, A defence of prieſtes mariages ſtablysshed by the imperiall lawes of the realme of Englande ‎, London: Richarde Iugge, page 98:

     Where the decrées be very moueable, in that thei be written and grauen in the cheſte of the breaſt of the lorde Pope, that he may interpret theim whiche waie he will, and that muſt be law to be ſticken to, what ſoeuer it be.

   • 1592, Thomas à Kempis, chapter 9, in Thomas Rogers, transl., Soliloquium animæ: the ſole-talke of the ſoule ‎, London: Andrew Maunſell, page 62:

     Oah, how greatlie haue I ſinned euen in this, that I haue not ſticken to thee alone, neglecting all things elſe!.

   • 1637, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, “The pſalmes of DAVID”, in The Book of Common-Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments: , London: Thomas Buck, and Roger Daniel, , →OCLC, column 2:

     7 I have ſticken [KJV ſtucke] unto thy teſtimonies: O Lord confound me not. / 8 I will run the way of thy commandments: when thou haſt ſet my heart at libertie.

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• Hyphenation: sti‧cken

From Middle High German sticken, from Old High German sticken, perhaps related to Stich (“prick, stab”) or stecken (“to stick, pin, insert”).

sticken (weak, third-person singular present stickt, past tense stickte, past participle gestickt, auxiliary haben)

1. to embroider

• besticken

From Middle High German erstecken, equivalent to modern er- +‎ stecken (“to pin, stick in”).

sticken (weak, third-person singular present stickt, past tense stickte, past participle gestickt, auxiliary sein)

1. (dated) to suffocate

• ersticken

• “sticken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “sticken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “sticken” in OpenThesaurus.de
• sticken on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “sticken” in Duden online
• “sticken” in Duden online

sticken

1. definite plural of stick

• nickets, tickens