Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of the preterit of
lift .
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Examples
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He that appaireth the substaunce that was lefte him, is by a commune lawe punished: and contrariwise that encreaseth it, muche praysed and honoured.
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And giueth hym a blowe on the lefte chieke, for a remembraunce of the
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Separate notwithstonding, the men on the ryghte side, and the women, on the lefte.
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With the whiche aftre he hath rauisshed him selfe in the vestrie, vppon solempne feastes, when he entendeth to do masse: he commeth forth to the aultare, hauing on the right side a prieste, on the lefte side a
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Thei caried vpon their foreheades, and on their lefte armes pretie billettes of Paper, facioned for the place, wherein ware written the tenne preceptes of the two Tables.
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That done he goeth vp to the aultare, openeth the booke, lieng vpon the lefte corner of the same, kysseth it, and so procedeth in the Solempnisacion of the Masse.
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And lefte no trade of religion to his posteritie, because he none had learned of his father.
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Emperor himselfe, or vnto any other great personage, hee alwayes beheld that table, as if hee had found therein those things which hee spake: neither did he cast his eyes to the right hand, nor to the lefte, nor vpon his face, with whom he talked.
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Then, come there presentes streight from al countries, and peoples of his dominion: and all the Threasoures that the kyng, his predecessour lefte, are brought him.
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The Maries, shaue the lefte side of their heade, and lette the heare growe on the right.
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