Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
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- verb obsolete Alternative form of
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Examples
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The wynd gan chaunge, and blew right as hem leste.
The Canterbury Tales 2006
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If you're wondering, the title is from Chaucer, specifically a remarkable passage in Book 2 of Troilus and Criseyde that could serve as an epigraph for any book on historical linguistics: Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge
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The whole state of Ynde beyng deuided into these ordres or degrees: it is also ordeined, that a man shall not marie out of the ordre, wherin his callyng lieth, ne chaunge his trade.
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Vpon regarde of chaunge in their luste, thei mary echeone many wiues, and yet punishe thei none offence so greuously as adultery.
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Thei are greate sparers, and contente with smalle chaunge, and litle foode.
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It is not lawfull for the king to slepe by daie time: and yet in the night tyme to auoide trecherie, he is forced euery houre to chaunge his chambre.
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And because thei cary great droues of catteile with them, they chaunge their soile often.
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This people the somer before that Darius set furthe, ware constrained for the greate multitude of Serpentes that ware bredde in their quartres, to chaunge their dwellyng place.
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For it is not lawefull for any manne, to chaunge the kynges woordes: ne for any man in any wise, to replie against suche sentence as he giueth.
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Yet make thei for no season, ne chaunge, any singular holidaie or obseruance: but ilike for them all indifferently.
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