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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of hearse.

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Examples

  • She had re - hearsed the dynamics of flying in the past; she should be able to manage a properly designed dragon.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • It was eight musicians and their girlfriends, and they re - hearsed on the beach.

    ɘloЯ 2010

  • I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear! would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin!

    The Merchant of Venice 2004

  • Now, had Tashtego perished in that head, it had been a very precious perishing; smothered in the very whitest and daintiest of fragment spermaceti; coffined, hearsed, and tombed in the secret inner chamber and sanctum sanctorum of the whale.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • She had re - hearsed the dynamics of flying in the past; she should be able to manage a properly designed dragon.

    Unicorn Point Anthony, Piers 1989

  • Have not seers seen in Heaven’s halls Thine hearsed and lifeless form stark amidst the black and rolling smoke of sin; where all along bow bitter forms of endless dead?

    A Litany of Atlanta by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois 1922

  • Have not seers seen in Heaven's halls Thine hearsed and lifeless form stark amidst the black and rolling smoke of sin, where all along bow bitter forms of endless dead?

    Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil 1915

  • I would my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear! would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin!

    Act III. Scene I. The Merchant of Venice 1914

  • So many boys from Illinois were hearsed in this bloody soil.

    Children of the Market Place Edgar Lee Masters 1909

  • Have not seers seen in Heaven's halls Thine hearsed and lifeless form stark amidst the black and rolling smoke of sin, where all along bow bitter forms of endless dead?

    The Book of American Negro Poetry James Weldon Johnson 1904

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