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Verb
smote
- simple past of smite
- ✤ Hounds whimpered and marked at the stick-pile. Their many tongues smote all other sounds from Tarka’s ears.1
- (now colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of smite
- ✤ As thy eye beames, when their freſh rayſe haue ſmot.2
- ✤ “We should have smote him,” continued the ex-president of the Directory, still fretful from his misfortune; […]3
- ✤ The world ‘as got me snouted jist a treat; Crool Forchin’s dirty left ‘as smote me soul.4
- ✤ So that’s the story- God did not smote us for that story. We finished the whole thing. Penn Jillette in Las Vegas with Michale Goudeau- we’ll be back, we’ll take some phone calls. God hath not smote my ass!5
- ✤ “God has use for Satan, or He would have smote him centuries ago. In any case, Captain Dan is nothing without Barbary. He will shrivel and drift before the first clean draught that blows unhampered across the ruins.”6
- simple past of smight
Pronunciation
Printed 2026-07-27.
(echo:: @ ⌗)
Link to original Footnotes
1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19: ↩
c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 132: ↩
1828, Laure Junot duchesse d’Abrantès, Memoirs of the Duchess d’Abrantés , volume 1, page 197: ↩
1915, C.J. Dennis, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, published 1916, page 13: ↩
2006 January 4, Penn Jillette, Michael Goudeau, 19:01 from the start, in Penn Radio , number 2: ↩
2008 February 5, Loren D. Estleman, Port Hazard: A Page Murdock Novel , →ISBN, page 261: ↩
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