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

Etymologies

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raise + -eth

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Examples

  • Those of low degree advanced to the posts of honour (v. 41): Yet setteth he the poor on high, raiseth from the dust to the throne of glory, 1 Sam. ii.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

  • Thus was fulfilled the prophecy of the Psalmist: "He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the needy out of the dunghill."

    Archive 2009-08-01 Carla 2009

  • Thus was fulfilled the prophecy of the Psalmist: "He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the needy out of the dunghill."

    Powys: the early medieval kingdom Carla 2009

  • For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.

    Rescues, New and Old 2008

  • He transcendeth race by declaiming his whitheth mother and grandethparents who raiseth him after his blacketh father skeedaddleth back to Africa.

    "I’m disgusted with him." Ann Althouse 2008

  • Prophet declared, ‘Game belongeth to him who taketh it, not to him who raiseth it.’

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Jinn and the flaming of fires and the flight of sparks and smoke from their mouths and the noise of their groaning and their arrogance in blocking up the road before us, our ears will be deafened and our eyes blinded, so that we shall neither hear nor see, nor dare any look behind him, or he perisheth: but there horseman boweth head on saddle-bow and raiseth it not for three days.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • There are sometimes great effects, of cross lies; as if a man, that negotiates between two princes, to draw them to join in a war against the third, doth extol the forces of either of them, above measure, the one to the other: and sometimes he that deals between man and man, raiseth his own credit with both, by pretending greater interest than he hath in either.

    The Essays 2007

  • For there example teacheth, company comforteth, emulation quickeneth, glory raiseth: so as in such places the force of custom is in his exaltation.

    The Essays 2007

  • In the same manner, as natural kindness when we are awake causeth desire, and desire makes heat in certain other parts of the body; so also too much heat in those parts, while we sleep, raiseth in the brain an imagination of some kindness shown.

    Leviathan 2007

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