Chiefly Sc. Obs. Also 6 stynt, stinte. [f. STENT sb.1, or aphetic var. of EXTENT v. (Cf. STINT v., with which this word seems to have been to some extent confused.)]
1. trans. To assess, tax (a person, community, country).
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 474/1. Stentyd, taxatus.
a. 1513. Fabyan, Chron., VII. (1811), 448. The warde of Algate was stynted or sessyd at .xxx.li. Ibid., 522. The lordis and gentylmen were stynted at certeyne men, after the value of theyr landys.
1557–8. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., X. 334. To vesie and considder quha wes absent witht thair oxin stentit to carie the munitioun of Hume.
a. 1670. Spalding, Troub. Chas. I. (Bannatyne Club), I. 92. Then they begane to stent the king’s leidges within the shyre of Angus.
1725. Ramsay, Gentle Sheph., II. i. For never did he stent Us in our thriving, wi’ a racket rent.
absol. 1569. Reg. Privy Council Scot., II. 12. That thai [our Soverane Lordis liegis, landit men] convene … and stent and contribute every man according to the avale of thair landis.
2. To assess and tax (land, goods).
1548–9. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., IX. 277–8. Chargeing the Shereffis to gif up thair retoures of the landis withtin thair sherefdomes and ballieries for stenting of the punde landis, etc.
1570. Foxe, A. & M. (ed. 2), 18/1. To prescribe hys lawes, to stinte his landes, and such other.
1654. Kirk, Sess. Rec., in J. Campbell, Balmerino (1899), 408. [Three elders appointed as] stentours … impartiallie to stent and sie what bolls of victuall everie heretor was.
1848. Edin. Topogr. & Antiq. Mag., Dec., 146. The lands and barony of Nevay, stented at £5 old, and £20 new extent.
3. To levy (a sum of money) as an assessment; to determine the amount of (an assessment).
1633. in A. McKay, Hist. Kilmarnock (1880), 153. [Parliament passed an Act to establish a school in every parish in Scotland,] upon a sum to be stented upon every plough or husband land.
1687. Rec. Elgin (New Spalding Club), I. 341. The Counsell appoyntit Saturday next … for stenting the cess.
1720. in W. Cramond, Ann. Cullen (1888), 80. For ale and brandy at stenting the Lambas cess 15s.
Hence Stented ppl. a., Stenting vbl. sb.
c. 1440. Stented [see sense 1].
1587. Sc. Acts Jas. VI. (1814), 111. 508/2. Fra all taxationis … watching warding stenting and vtheris chargeis.
