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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
smite .
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First It tends to the circumvention of the liberty of llie church of Christ in interrupting the free course of election and ordination of teaching officers: for though it say oo person shall; yet the same stroke that hits the person called smites also the persons calling: for, no undertaking any such course of teaching by any person in this jurisdiction without said approbation — then no election or ordination to that work but with the said ap - probation.
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Then they dress him up like the six-pack Dread Pirate Roberts so all the zombies think he's Dionysus, and he "smites" Sam into vanishing.
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"The whole matter of war ... smites common sense and Christianity in the face," wrote Herman Melville long before the Civil War ever began.
Cynthia Wachtell: An American Tradition of War and War Protest Cynthia Wachtell 2010
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Thursday is Thor's, the God of strength whose hammer Mjolnir smites giants.
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'By attitude, by look, by voice, when he acts with insolence, when he acts like an enemy, when he smites with his fists, when he smites you like a slave.'
On the Sublime Hal Duncan 2010
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Behind every obstacle you encounter, every blow that smites you, every defeat that you receive, is the hand of the trusts.
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Thursday is Thor's, the God of strength whose hammer Mjolnir smites giants.
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With this fall the nobility of the Redskin is extinguished and what few are left are a pack of whining curs who lick the hand that smites them.
Tim Giago: December 29, 'A Day That Will Live in Infamy' for the Lakota Tim Giago 2011
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"He plays silly shots to get out and bowls lots of pies but inbetween times he smites big sixes and bowls unplayable deliveries."
Aussie cricket commentators have been a breath of fresh air on air | Rob Bagchi 2011
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With this fall the nobility of the Redskin is extinguished and what few are left are a pack of whining curs who lick the hand that smites them.
Tim Giago: December 29, 'A Day That Will Live in Infamy' for the Lakota Tim Giago 2011
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