Obs. Also 5–6 straunge, 5 straunche. [ad. OF. estranger: see ESTRANGE v.]
1. trans. To remove, banish, keep apart from an accustomed place, condition, relations, etc.
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, III. li. (1869), 162. Ye shulden now be me ful sweete and deere, ne were j so aloyned and straunged from yow.
1450. Rolls of Parlt., V. 216/2. He shuld be stranged from his high Presence, and from his Court.
c. 1450. Knt. de la Tour, 58. And for that dede we were … straunged from gret ioye and blisse.
1547. Bk. of Marchantes, b j b. The pore people are so vndertrod, grawen, devoured, and so straunged for [= from] ye knowledge of God.
1559. Mirr. Mag., Mowbray banished, xxi. I that was exylde for aye, My enmy straunged but for a ten yeares daye.
2. To make strange or different, alter.
1390. Gower, Conf., II. 329. For anon after he was changed And from his oghne kinde stranged, A lappewincke mad he was. Ibid., III. 77. The See his propre kinde changeth, And al the world his forme strangeth.
1567. Drant, Hor. De Arte Poet., A ij. By wittie composition its excellente to heare A knowne worde straunged hansumlye.
1638. Brathwait, Barnabees Jrnl., IV. (1818), 167. Musing I should be so stranged, I resolv’d them, I was changed.
3. To alienate in feeling or affection, estrange from (rarely of).
1460. Paston Lett., I. 507. That I schulde … sodenly have departed in to these parties,… and that I straunched me from sertein persones to moche.
1483. Caxton, Golden Leg., 266/2. She lad the lyf of an heremyte and al Straunged fro the world.
c. 1500. Melusine, xiii. 48. Are ye as now so straunged of vs that ye marye you without that we know therof tyl the day of weddyng?
1580. Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Estrangé, stranged, alienated.
1623. Wodroephe, Spared Hours Soldier, 364. Vice and Laizinesse, which offuscate & diffame the Children of good Houses, stranging them from their God.
1641. Tombes, Leaven Phar. Wil-worship (1643), 9. It strangeth the mindes of people and Ministers from learning, and studying Gods word.
a. 1656. Bp. Hall, Rem. Wks. (1660), 146. Did we love our Father in Heaven as Children could we strange ourselves from his interest?
1691. D’Emiliane’s Frauds Rom. Monks, 47. I might have had good reason to infer from their behaviour, that their Hearts were much stranged from the words of their Lips.
1715. trans. C’tess D’Anois’ Wks., 93. I thought him quite strang’d from me.
b. To make (a person) a stranger to (a sentiment).
1390. Gower, Conf., II. 190. Whan ther is lacke in hem above, The poeple is stranged to the love Of trouthe, in cause of ignorance. Ibid., III. 210. He which that wolde himselve strange To Pite, fond mercy so strange, That he withoute grace is lore.
4. ? To grudge (something valuable) to (a person); refl. to refuse (to grant something).
1439. Rolls of Parlt., V. 24/1. By cause of which Statuyt thus made, the Chaunceller of Englond for the tyme beyng, hath straunged hem oft tymes to graunt Licences.
c. 1489. Caxton, Blanchardyn, 71. That sore lytyll that god hath lent me of goodes sholde not be straunged vnto hym by me, for he is worthy to haue mykel more.
5. intr. To depart, estrange oneself from; to be removed or become alienated from.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Sel. Wks., I. 12. Crist shulde be our maister, and we shulden not strange from him. Ibid., 79. Men shulden speke her wordis as Goddis lawe spekiþ, and strange not in speche from undirstondinge of þe puple.
1390. Gower, Conf., I. 6. Mi wittes changen And alle lustes fro me strangen.
6. To become strange or changed. Obs.
1390. Gower, Conf., II. 264. And riht so as hir jargoun strangeth, In sondri wise hir forme chaungeth.
7. To be surprised, wonder. Const. at, dependent clause, or to and inf.
1639. Fuller, Holy War, IV. ii. 169. Whereat I should strange more, but that [etc.].
1648. Geree, Red Horse, 7. Strange not then at changes.
1654. Gayton, Pleas. Notes, III. i. 69. Thou wouldst not much strange that I doe before-hand conforme my selfe to the Ceremony.
1664. Butler, Hud., II. i. 9. Is ’t not enough to make one strange, That some mens fancies should ne’er change?
1671. True Non-Conformist, 472. I strange you should accuse Henry the Eight of a civil Papacy, and so inconsequently acquit al his Successors.
a. 1691. G. Fox, Jrnl. (1827), I. 80. I stranged at it.
1696. Eliz. West, Mem. (1865), 53. I stranged mightily what might be the reason that the mills were going.
1757. Mrs. Griffith, Lett. Henry & Frances (1767), II. 158. J. M. is in this house, offered me his company, and stranges much, as the waiter phrases it, why I should thus chuse to be alone.
1788. Shirrefs, Poems (1790), 164. I strange to hear ye speak in sic a stile.
1880. Antrim & Down Gloss., s.v., I strange very much that you didn’t come.
b. trans. To wonder at.
1641. R. Harris, Abners Funerall, Ep. Ded. Madam, Strange not my slownesse.
c. To surprise.
1657. Gaule, Sap. Justif., 74. It stranges me still, that [etc.].
Hence † Stranged ppl. a., made strange; † Stranging vbl. sb., wondering.
1581. T. Howell, Deuises, K iij b. What straunged sight hath me dismaide.
1658. Gurnall, Chr. in Arm., II. verse 15. xvi. 456. This very thing made one of the Disciples ask Christ with no little stranging at it, Lord [etc.].
