Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
haste . - noun The second person singular present indicative of have, contracted from
havest .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- Archaic 2d pers. sing. pres. of
have , contr. ofhavest .
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- verb archaic, poetic, regional Second-person singular simple present form of
have .
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Examples
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Shake it off, and there is fulfilled in the disobedient man the threatening of my text, which rightly translated ought to be, 'Thou hast broken the yokes of wood, and thou _hast_ made instead of them yokes of iron.'
Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Alexander Maclaren 1868
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Therefore we must read: 'Thou hast delivered my soul from death: _hast_ Thou not delivered,' etc.; the question being equivalent to a strong affirmation, 'Yea, Thou hast delivered my feet from falling.'
Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms Alexander Maclaren 1868
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Who at a word hast power all things to destroy cleane,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And Zeus, the cloud gatherer, answered him saying: Lo, now, shaker of the earth, of widest power, what a word hast thou spoken!
Book XIII Homer 1909
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"What kind of a word hast thou given them," asked the other magician.
Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know Various 1896
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And Zeus, the cloud gatherer, answered him saying: 'Lo, now, shaker of the earth, of widest power, what a word hast thou spoken!
The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1878
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They question his love, and diminish the instances of it, and seem to quarrel with him for telling them of it: Yet you say, Wherein hast thou loved us?
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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A severe reproof of her present state of life: He whom thou now hast is not thy husband.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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Christ silently submitted to it; but, when he grew proud of it, he made him know himself: "All the power thou hast is given thee from above," which may be taken two ways: -- First, As reminding him that his power in general, as a magistrate, was a limited power, and he could do no more than God would suffer him to do.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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What he builds this hope upon: "Thou hast delivered my soul from death, and therein hast magnified thy power and goodness, and put me into a capacity of receiving further mercy from thee; and now wilt thou not secure and crown thy own work?"
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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