/ · 1894 Brewer’s · S · Sty or Stye
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Christ styed up to heaven. Halliwell gives sty = a ladder, and the verb would be to go to heaven, as it were, by Jacob’s ladder. The Anglo-Saxon verb stigan means to ascend.
“The beast …
Thought with his winges to stye above the ground.”
Spenser: Faërie Queene, bk. i. canto xi. 25.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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