Some others were new driven, and distent Into great ingowes1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
The North-east spends his rage; he now shut up Within his iron cave, the effusive South Warms the wide air, and o'er the void of heaven Breathes the big clouds with vernal showers distent.a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Spring”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
[…]shall yet be distended, one fourteenth part longer then the sayd entire Diameter; which addition of distent will conferre much to their Beauty, and detract but little from their Strength1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC: