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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
play .
Etymologies
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Examples
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They're all yelling, "Verily, 'Freebird'!" and "By my cousin's gnarly hump, playeth thou 'Whipping Post'!"
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Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.
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Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.
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And first the Priest doth beginne to play vpon a thing like to a great sieue, with a skinne on the one ende like a drumme: and the sticke that he playeth with is about a spannne long, and one ende is round like a ball, couered with the skinne of an Harte.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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How now, said Launcelot unto Arthur, yonder rideth a knight that playeth his pageants.
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I say, you who are here, and not that other you who playeth below in the tennis-court?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Then they studied the art of painting or carving; or brought into use the antique play of tables, as Leonicus hath written of it, and as our good friend Lascaris playeth at it.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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I say, you who are here, and not that other you who playeth below in the tennis-court?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Then they studied the art of painting or carving; or brought into use the antique play of tables, as Leonicus hath written of it, and as our good friend Lascaris playeth at it.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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But this is the secret, solemn hour, when no shepherd playeth his pipe.
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