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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Subjected; enslaved; envassaled. The word has been found only in the passage cited, where some take it to be ⟨ pesant + -ed, and translate ‘heavy,’ ‘stupid.’
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Made heavy or dull; debased.
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hernesheir From a poem by the English poet John Marston, a contemporary of Bacon, Shakespeare, and Jonson, apparently the only instance of this term's use in print other than in citations of it and in dictionaries. Cf. Old French pesant - "heavy".
"...that now poore soul (thus pesanted to each lewd thoughts controule) hath lost all heart..." --Scourge of Villainie, Satyre XI. Humours. Dec 29, 2011