Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Stent \Stent\, v. t. [Obs. imp. {Stente}; obs. p. p. {Stent}.]
   [See {Stint}.]
   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.