quent

English

Verb

quent

1. (obsolete) past participle of quench
   • a. 1542, Thomas Wyatt, “Somtyme I fled the fyre that me brent” in the Devonshire Manuscript, folio 38 verso:

     Somtyme I fled the fyre that me brent
     by hyllys, by dales, by water and by wynd
     And nowe I followe the colys y^t be quent
     From dover to calleſſe ageynſt my mynd