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 Stent v. t. [Obs. imp. Stente obs. p. p. Stent.]  To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint.
    Then would he weep, he might not be stent.   --Chaucer.
 Yet n'ould she stent
 Her bitter railing and foul revilement.   --Spenser.