The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stente
Stent \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.
Usage examples of "stente".
And right anon swich strif ther is bigonne For thilke grauntyng in the hevene above Bitwixe Venus, the Goddesse of Love, And Mars the stierne God armypotente, That Jupiter was bisy it to stente.