a. Obs. [OE. stręngest:—OTeut. *straŋgisto-, superl. of *strango- STRONG a.] Strongest (see the senses of STRONG a.).
c. 893. K. Ælfred, Oros., III. x. (Sweet), 138. Feower þa strengstan þeoda.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 280. Heo [sc. humility] is … þinge strengest.
a. 1450. Knt. de la Tour, xxiv. 34. And thanne he required hem that the strengest hore of hem shulde smite furst the stroke.
1471. Fortescue, Wks. (1869), 534. This is the strengyst argument that is made in the said boke by reasoune of the forsayd texte of Genesis.
c. 1489. Caxton, Sonnes of Aymon, ix. 208. Ye made hym the castel of Mountalban vpon the strengest grounde that is wythin your royame.
c. 1500. Melusine, vi. 33. I neuer sawe hym syn that the chasse was at the strengest.
