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–verb (used with object), hent, hent·ing. Archaic.

to seize.

[Origin: bef. 1000; ME henten, OE hentan

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tr.v. hent·ed, hent·ing, hents Obsolete
To take hold of; seize.

[Middle English henten, from Old English hentan.]

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Hent\ (h[e^]nt), v. t. [imp. Hente; p. p. Hent.] [OE. hente, henten, fr. AS. hentan, gehentan, to pursue, take, seize; cf. Icel. henda, Goth. hinpan (in compos.), and E. hunt.] To seize; to lay hold on; to catch; to get. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. --Spenser.

This cursed Jew him hente and held him fast. --Chaucer.

But all that he might of his friendes hente On bookes and on learning he it spente. --Chaucer.

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