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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of spread.

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spread + -eth

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Examples

  • For it is of these that he says, Whose word spreadeth like a cancer [887], tainting the health of the mind, invaded by it with a secret and stealthy contagion.

    NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus 1898

  • It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in Isaiah 40:22.

    Kirk Cameron attempts to debunk Darwin 2009

  • My half brother Nesnej spreadeth half lies about my rightful right to this Khan forsaken piece of land we've come to know and love for our children and our children's children and our children's children's children.

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • For as infection spreadeth upon that which is sound, and tainteth it; so when envy is gotten once into a state, it traduceth even the best actions thereof, and turneth them into an ill odor.

    The Essays 2007

  • Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

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