Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete past participle of loose.
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Examples
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I hope McCain chooses him as running mate – then they will loste 47 states
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I from Stuttgart. their famus panda my countrie loste it parint.
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Atte passynge of this ryvere, seynt Eustache loste hys two sones, whanne that he hadde lost hys wyffe.
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It is compted a greate offence emong them to suffre drincke, or a piece of meate to be loste.
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And let him humbly, and truly with his owne mouthe, confesse to a wise prieste, in the steade of God: all those offences wherwith he knoweth him selfe to haue loste his innocencie and clennesse, and to haue prouoked the wrathe of GOD againste him selfe.
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By this meanes the thefte being easely founde out, he that was robbed, loste the fourths parte and receiued the residue, the whiche fourthe was giuen to the thiefe.
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Bur he turned azen from thens, from whens he was come fro; and so he loste moche peynefulle labour, as him self seyde, a gret while aftre, that he was comen hom.
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Firste let him sorowe, not with a lighte forthinckinge, but with a moste earneste and bittre repentaunce in the botome of his conscience: for the puritie and innocencie that he had gotten eyther by baptisme or the benefite of former repentaunce, and nowe hathe eftsones loste, and forgone throughe sinne.
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Atte passynge of this ryvere, seynt Eustache loste hys two sones, whanne that he hadde lost hys wyffe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Bur he turned azen from thens, from whens he was come fro; and so he loste moche peynefulle labour, as him self seyde, a gret while aftre, that he was comen hom.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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