Obs. Forms: 1–2 strangian, strongian, 3 strange-n, 3–5 stronge-n. [OE. strangian, f. strang STRONG a. (OE. had also ʓestrangian intr. and trans.: see B.-T. Suppl.). Cf. OHG. strangên intr.] a. intr. To become strong. b. trans. To make strong, strengthen.
a. c. 825. Vesp. Psalter lxiv. [lxv.] 4. Word unrehtwisra strongadun [Vulg. prævaluerunt] ofer us.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Gram., xxvi. (Z.), 154. Uigeo, ic strangiʓe.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 13. Þet eower heorie erȝian swiðe and eower feond stronȝian.
b. 971. Blickling Hom., 249. He þær wunode mid him seofon daʓas, lærende and strangenda hire heortan on ʓeleafan ures Drihtnes Hælendes Cristes.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Saints’ Lives, xxxiii. 255. Pafnuntius þa wearð micclan ʓestrangod þurh hire trymenesse.
c. 1205. Lay., 4461. Þe castles heo nomen alle & strangede þa walles. Ibid., 8239. Androgeus forð rihtes nom alle his cnihtes … & iwenden in to Kent to his ane castle & hine strongede wel.
c. 1315. Shoreham, Poems, I. 340. And wanne a man hit onderuangeþ, Ine saule hit hine strangeþ.
c. 1450. Mirk’s Festial, 229. For maydenhode ys lytyll helpe wyth, but yf hyt be strongyt wyth pacience.
