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  • verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of slay.

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Examples

  • It is the Chrystanthemlander with his porters of bonzos, pompommy plonkyplonk, the ghariwallahs, moveyovering the cabrattlefield of slaine.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Then they all goe vnto the beasts which are slaine (suffering the liuing beasts to returne into the wood that they may haue more sport with them another time) and euery man enjoyeth that beast as his owne, wherein he findeth his arrow sticking.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • Also, to powre out milke, meate, or any kinde of drinke vpon the ground or to make water within their tabernacle: which whosoeuer doth willingly, he is slaine, but otherwise he must pay a great summe of money to the inchanter to be purified.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

  • And being thus vanquished, they were, the greater part of them, slaine; and others, which could not escape, were carried into captiuitie.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

  • And it is the Tartars custome, neuer to bee reconciled vnto such as haue slaine their Ambassadours, till they haue reuenged themselues.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

  • And when the Tartars had subdued a great part of the world, they came vnto the sayd olde man, and tooke from him the custody of his paradise: who being incensed thereat, sent abroad diuers desperate and resolute persons out of his forenamed paradise, and caused many of the Tartarian nobles to be slaine.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • They and many other Christians, both Russians, and Hungarians demanded of vs, whether they might be saued or no, because they were constrained to drinke Cosmos, and to eate the dead carkases of such things, as were slaine by the Saracens, and other infidels?

    The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. 2004

  • And if one or two, or more of ten proceed manfully to the battel, but the residue of those ten draw backe and follow not the company, they are in like manner slaine.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

  • Many pilgrims also put themselues vnder the chariot wheeles, to the end that their false god may go ouer them: and al they ouer whom the chariot runneth, are crushed in pieces, and diuided asunder in the midst, and slaine right out.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • Besides, if any man hath a morsell giuen him, which he is not able to swallow, and for that cause casteth it out of his mouth, there is an hole made vnder his tabernacle, by which hee is drawen forth and slaine without all compassion.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

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