The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scant \Scant\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Scanting.]
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To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries.
Where a man hath a great living laid together and where he is scanted.
--Bacon.I am scanted in the pleasure of dwelling on your actions.
--Dryden. To cut short; to make small, narrow, or scanty; to curtail. ``Scant not my cups.''
--Shak.
Wiktionary
(context archaic English) diminished; restricted. (from 16th c.) v
(en-past of: scant)
Usage examples of "scanted".
Material relating to them has, on the whole, been scanted by annalists, since they were heroes too disreputable for classic myth, too cryptically independent ever to let themselves be tied to a folk, too shifty and improbable in their adventurings to please the historian, too often involved with a riffraff of dubious demons, unfrocked sorcerers, and discredited deities—a veritable underworld of the supernatural.
For Wagner was himself -- Wagner was the murderer and the hunted man within him, but Wagner was also the composer, the artist, the genius, the seducer, lover of life and the senses, luxury -- Wagner was the collective name for everything repressed, buried, scanted in the life of Friedrich Klein, the former civil servant.
Both of us, you and I, are wandering in the same maze, in the maze of our feelings, which have been scanted in this sorry world, for which reason we take revenge on this evil world, each in his own fashion.
They scanted themselves even more, and it was very hard to choke down the now crumbling journey cakes which stuck in the throat.