Hypertext Webster Gateway: "spurning"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Spurn \Spurn\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spurned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Spurning}.] [OE. spurnen to kick against, to stumble over,
AS. spurnan to kick, offend; akin to spura spur, OS. & OHG.
spurnan to kick, Icel. spyrna, L. spernere to despise, Skr.
sphur to jerk, to push. [root]171. See {Spur}.]
1. To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick.

[The bird] with his foot will spurn adown his cup.
--Chaucer.

I spurn thee like a cur out of my way. --Shak.

2. To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept; to
treat with contempt.

What safe and nicely I might well delay By rule of
knighthood, I disdain and spurn. --Shak.

Domestics will pay a more cheerful service when they
find themselves not spurned because fortune has laid
them at their master's feet. --Locke.


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