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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Deign \Deign\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Deigned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Deigning}.] [OE. deinen, deignen, OF. degner, deigner,
     daigner, F. daigner, fr. L. dignari to deem worthy, deign,
     fr. dignus worthy; akin to decere to be fitting. See
     {Decent}, and cf. {Dainty}, {Dignity}, {Condign}, {Disdain}.]
     1. To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice; -- opposed to
        disdain. [Obs.]
  
              I fear my Julia would not deign my lines. --Shak.
  
     2. To condescend to give or bestow; to stoop to furnish; to
        vouchsafe; to allow; to grant.
  
              Nor would we deign him burial of his men. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Deign \Deign\, v. i.
     To think worthy; to vouchsafe; to condescend; - - followed by
     an infinitive.
  
           O deign to visit our forsaken seats.     --Pope.
  
           Yet not Lord Cranstone deigned she greet. --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
  
           Round turned he, as not deigning Those craven ranks to
           see.                                     --Macaulay.
  
     Note: In early English deign was often used impersonally.
  
                 Him deyneth not to set his foot to ground.
                                                    --Chaucer.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  deign
       v : do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
           [syn: {condescend}, {descend}]

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