lain
past participle of lie (“to be oriented in a horizontal position, situated”)
Verb form of, participle
- past participle of lie (“to be oriented in a horizontal position, situated”)
- He had lain there for many hours.
- The book had lain on the attic floor until it was found decades later.
- I ascended to my room, and lay down upon the bed. A whole hour I must have lain thus, with my head resting upon my hand. - 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, chapter XII, in The Gambler, translated by C. J....
- past participle of lay (“to put down”)
Synonyms: laid
Origin
Inflected forms.
Verb obsolete
- To conceal, keep quiet about.
- Also broder sir Agrauayne and sir mordred in lyke wyse sir Launcelot rescowed yow bothe and thre score and two from sir Turquyn / Me thynketh broder suche kynde dedes and kyndenes shold be remembryd / doo as ye lyst...
Origin
From Middle English lainen, leynen, from Old Norse leyna (“to conceal”) and Old English līeġnan (“to deny; conceal”); both from Proto-Germanic *laugnijaną, from Proto-Germanic *laugnō (“secrecy”).