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  • verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of quote.

Etymologies

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From quote +‎ -est, the archaic second-person singular tense suffix.

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Examples

  • As for what proof thou quotest from the poets, the verses were the product of a complexion unnatural in this respect; and as for the habitual sodomites and catamites, offenders against religion, Almighty Allah hath condemned them in His Holy

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • "I know not the author whom thou quotest from, good Dux."

    Jacob Faithful Frederick Marryat 1820

  • Then thou goest on, page 12, and quotest the place where I say, page 37.

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

  • As for that thou quotest from the poets, the verses in question were the product of an unnatural complexion in this respect; and as for the confirmed sodomists and debauchees, that sin against religion, whom God hath condemned in His Holy Book, wherein He denounceth their filthy practices, saying, 'Do ye betake you to males from the four corners of the world and forsake that which your Lord hath created for you of your wives?

    The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Anonymous 1879

  • Maybe Dr. Carver knows something that the angry, caustic Dawkins, whom thou quotest, doesn’t know at all.

    Report on the 2005 Mega Creation Conference, Part Two - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • "As thou quotest Scripture to me, select thy texts with greater care.

    A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales Am��lie Rives 1904

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