pa. pple. Obs. [Y- 4.] = PENT pa. pple. and ppl. a.

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c. 1395.  Plowman’s T., 22. He nas nat alway in cloystre y-pent. Ibid., 939. Proude pendaunts at hir ars y-pent.

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1579, 1728.  [see PENT pa. pple. 1].

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1642.  H. More, Song of Soul, III. I. xxv. Those powers be all or more or lesse ypent In this grosse life.

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1839.  Kingsley, Poems, In Illum. Missal, 7. My love … Have I within this seely book y-pent.

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