a. Obs. rare. In 6 straungy, -gie, straunge (disyllabic), strangie, -gy. [app. f. STRANGE a. + -Y.] Strange.
1555. Phaër, Æneid, II. C iij b. Some gasyd at the straungy gift that there to pallas stood. Ibid., III. H iij. That night in wodes wt straunge [disyllabic; so also in 1562: eds. 1584–1600 read straungy, strangie] sightes & monsters far from kind We troublyd were…. Whan sodenly, from out the woodes,… A straungy man to sight apperes. Ibid., V. P j. All nakyd on some strangy sand onburyed lye thou must.
1594. R. C[arew], Godfrey of Bulloigne, II. li. To Mahound rather I impute aboue This straungy myracle.
1597. Tofte, Laura, I. xxxix. in Arber, Garner, VIII. 294. Her heart, by th’ other ’s made, in strangy wise, Hard as a rock.
