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Webster 1913 Edition

Deign

Deign

(dān)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Deigned
(dānd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Deigning
.]
[OE.
deinen
,
deignen
, OF.
degner
,
deigner
,
daigner
, F.
daigner
, fr. L.
dignari
to deem worthy, deign, fr.
dignus
worthy; akin to
decere
to be fitting. See
Decent
, and cf.
Dainty
,
Dignity
,
Condign
,
Disdain
.]
1.
To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice; – opposed to disdain.
[Obs.]
I fear my Julia would not
deign
my lines.
Shakespeare
2.
To condescend to give or bestow; to stoop to furnish; to vouchsafe; to allow; to grant.
Nor would we
deign
him burial of his men.
Shakespeare

Deign

,
Verb.
I.
To think worthy; to vouchsafe; to condescend; - - followed by an infinitive.
O
deign
to visit our forsaken seats.
Pope.
Yet not Lord Cranstone
deigned
she greet.
Sir W. Scott.
Round turned he, as not
deigning

Those craven ranks to see.
Macaulay.
In early English deign was often used impersonally.
Him
deyneth
not to set his foot to ground.
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition

Deign

DEIGN

,
Verb.
I.
Dane. To think worthy; to vouchsafe; to condescend.
O deign to visit our foraken seats.

DEIGN

,
Verb.
T.
dane. To grant or allow; to condescend to give to.

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