steren
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Cornish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
steren f (plural sterednow or sterennow)
- singulative of ster (“stars”)
Middle English[edit]
Verb[edit]
steren
- To incite; to lead
- late 14th century, Chaucer, “The Pardoner’s prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales[1], (1561 edition), published 1868, page 214:
- And in latin I speke wordes a fewe / To sauer with my predication / And for to stere men to devocion.
- And in Latin I speak a wordës few, / To saffron with my predicatión, / And for to stir men to devotión.