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

Etymologies

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From break +‎ -eth, the archaic third-person singular present tense suffix

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Examples

  • Alexandros for his wickedness, but now my sword breaketh in my hand, and my spear sped from my grasp in vain, and I have not smitten him. "

    The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

  • Today's words Word don't know: eateth, dieth, breaketh

    In the midst of roller derby, we are in boyfriend. mcurry 2008

  • Being at a Play in the Theatre, when all are attentively silent, he in a cross conceit applauds, or claps his hands: and when the Spectators are exceedingly pleased, he hisseth: and when all the company is very attentive in hearing and beholding, he lying alone belcheth or breaketh wind, as if Æolus were bustling in his Cave; forcing the Spectators to look another way … 1, translation by Joseph Healey

    12 « June « 2008 « Jahsonic 2008

  • Scripture tells us "he that breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite him" Eccles.

    Christendom's Building Blocks — Catholic Communities 2008

  • Being at a Play in the Theatre, when all are attentively silent, he in a cross conceit applauds, or claps his hands: and when the Spectators are exceedingly pleased, he hisseth: and when all the company is very attentive in hearing and beholding, he lying alone belcheth or breaketh wind, as if Æolus were bustling in his Cave; forcing the Spectators to look another way … 1, translation by Joseph Healey

    On caricatures and character « Jahsonic 2008

  • His fiddle bow doth cut through the hardest steel, on the helmets he breaketh the bright and shining gauds!

    The Nibelungenlied 2007

  • That the usurer breaketh the first law, that was made for mankind after the fall, which was, in sudore vultus tui comedes panem tuum; not, in sudore vultus alieni.

    The Essays 2007

  • Otherwise, whensoever a man lawfully promiseth, he unlawfully breaketh: but when the sovereign, who is the actor, acquitteth him, then he is acquitted by him that extorted the promise, as by the author of such absolution.

    Leviathan 2007

  • When the actor doth anything against the law of nature by command of the author, if he be obliged by former covenant to obey him, not he, but the author breaketh the law of nature: for though the action be against the law of nature, yet it is not his; but, contrarily, to refuse to do it is against the law of nature that forbiddeth breach of covenant.

    Leviathan 2007

  • He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

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