So unremovéd stood these steeds, their heads to earth let fall,
And warm tears gushing from their eyes, with passionate desire
Of their kind manager.
Chapman, Homer’s Iliad, xvii. 379.
Detest. For the writers of the seventeenth century ‘to detest’ still retained often the sense of its original ‘detestari,’ openly to witness against, and not merely to entertain an inward abhorrence of, a thing; as in ‘attest’ and ‘protest’ the etymological meaning still survives. It is not easy to adduce passages which absolutely prove this against one who should be disposed to deny it. There can, however, be no doubt whatever of the fact. In Du Bartas’ Weeks, 1621, p. 106, an invective against avarice is called in the margin ‘Detestation of Avarice, for her execrable and cruel effects.’
Wherefore God hath detested them with his own mouth, and clean given them over unto their own filthy lusts.—Bale, The Image of both Churches, c. 11.
She cast herself upon him [her dead husband], and with fearful cries detested the governor’s inhuman and cruel deceit.—Grimeston, History of Lewis XI., 1614, p. 228.
Satyrs were certain poems, detesting and reproving the misdemeanours of people and their vices.—Holland, Explanation of certain obscure words.
E’en to vice
They [women] are not constant, but are changing still