Also 1 stéop-, 5 styp-. [OE. stéopsunu: see STEP-. Cf. Du. stiefzoon, MLG. stēfsone, OHG. stiufsun (MHG. stiefsun, G. -sohn), ON. stjúpsonr (Sw. styfson, Da. stifsøn).] A son, by a former marriage, of one’s husband or wife.
c. 725. Corpus Gloss. (Hessels), F 210. Filiaster, steopsunu.
c. 893. [see STEPFATHER].
c. 1150. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 538/5. Priuiuignus [sic], stepsune.
c. 1205. Lay., 32138. Yuor wes his step-sune.
1297. R. Glouc. (Rolls), 1412. Tibery is stepsone after him com.
14[?]. Lat.-Eng. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 605/4. Privignus, a stypsone.
1490. Caxton, Eneydos, lxv. 164. Lauyne … retourned … to her stepsone ascanius.
1570. Levins, Manip., 164/26. A step son, priuignus.
1631. Weever, Anc. Funeral Mon., 210. This Queene [Joan] endured some troubles in the raigne of her Stepsonne King Henry the fift.
1797. Holcroft, trans. Stolberg’s Trav. (ed. 2), II. xlvii. 119. The stepson of Sylla.
1870. Freeman, Norm. Conq. (ed. 2), I. vi. 452. Where his banished step-sons were being brought up as his possible rivals.
1872. Morley, Voltaire, 2. Calvin, again, like some stern and austere step-son of the Christian God.
