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- verb obsolete to be called
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Examples
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And as they thus talked, ther came a knyghte that hyght Harsouse le
A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman
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Perhaps the earliest allusion to him in any printed English work is that contained in 'Ranulph Hidgen's Polychronicon,' published at Westminster by Wynkin de Worde, in 1495: 'In this Steven's tyme, a knyght that hyght Owen wente into the Purgatory of the second Patrick, abbot, and not byshoppe.
Purgatory Mrs. James Sadlier 1861
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"Gette, hyght Gagates, and is a boystous stone, and never the les it is precious."
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Whiles he laboured for Romes publyke 'profete With his felowe, that hyght Galerius,
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El Y N E that hyght, farre palling good and fay re.
Antient funeral monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the islands adjacent 1767
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a knyght that hyght Owen wente in to the Purgatory of the second
The Purgatory of St. Patrick Pedro Calder��n de la Barca 1640
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2.91.24: Artike the one northward we see: Antartike thother hyght.
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And from the hyght of the mounte down to Lyuyngborugh I was ramasshed, whiche is a right strange thinge. "
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"It is fayed that his Fader hyght Epiphanius, and his Moder Joanna, &c.
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