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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
dance .
Etymologies
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Examples
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His chief strength is in the neck. sorrow -- anxiety or dismay personified. is turned into joy -- rather, "danceth," "exulteth"; wherever he goes, he spreads terror "before him."
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There is not among the whole of them a bore or a bully in his cups; nor a meddler nor a miser of his money, and each and every hath some dance which he danceth and some of his own couplets which he caroleth; and the best of them is that, like thy servant, thy slave here, they know not what much talking is nor what forwardness means.
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Nemo saltat sobrius, Tully writes, he is not a sober man that danceth; for some such reason (belike) Domitian forbade the Roman senators to dance, and for that fact removed many of them from the senate.
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Their love danceth in a ring, and Cupid hunts them round about; he dotes, is doted on again.
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It is a beautiful folly, speaking; therewith danceth man over everything.
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Dark is still his countenance; the shadow of his hand danceth upon it.
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As a delicate wind danceth invisibly upon parqueted seas, light, feather – light, so — danceth sleep upon me.
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But although thou shouldst dance before me, and leap all thy side – leaps, no one may say unto me: ‘Behold, here danceth the last joyous man!’
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He, however, who cometh nigh to his goal, danceth.
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And though there be on earth fens and dense afflictions, he who hath light feet runneth even across the mud, and danceth, as upon well – swept ice.
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