Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete past participle of flay.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- p. p. of
flay .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Past participle of
flay
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Examples
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* There was a king of this name flain in the wars of Joflitia, and a city named Hazor plundered and burnt.
The History of the Holy Bible, as Contained in the Sacred Scriptures of the Old and New ... 1778
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Shall the hero of the field Be numbered with the flain? forbid it, heaven! he faints, he falls?
The lay of Corneelis: in three cantos, by an officer [T.W. Taylor] who was present at the storm ... Thomas William Taylor 1812
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Judas and Theudas for their Sedition were juftly flain.
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The women who were captivated, reported, that thirteen fachems had been flain, and that thirteen yet furvived.
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When I had advanced about five miles on the flain, I ftnmbled fuddenly on a mud-fbrt, which never difcovered until challenged by a fen try on the walls.
Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries,: From the Time of ... 1797
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Some of the Indians were flain and the men were drawn out of the mire.
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It has flain its thoufands, and enflaved its ten thoufands; and deftroyed at its plcafure the moil valuable privileges, and
Sermons on practical subjects Worthington, Hugh 1796
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In this refpeft he is called the Lamb flain before the foundation of the world.
Sermons and Other Practical Works: Consisting of Above One Hundred and Fifty Sermons Besides His ... 1796
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Alexander i£gus was dethroned in the fourth of his reign, and flain in the fevetith; yet the canon continues his government to the eighth year of the Seleucidan era, and defers to the ninth the acceflion of Ptolemy Soter, to whom is alTigned a reign of 20 years.
Analysis of researches into the origin and progress of historical time Walker, Robert, fl. 1796. [from old catalog] 1796
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He is the fame yefterday, the fame from eternity, being fet up from everlafting: the fame from the begin - ning of time; the Lamb flain from the foundation df the world; the fame Jefus that was promifed immediately
Sermons and Other Practical Works: Consisting of Above One Hundred and Fifty Sermons Besides His ... 1796
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