Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of stant, stent, contraction of standeth, present indicative third person singular of stand.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- 3d pers. sing. present of
stand .
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Examples
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And in that contree is an old castelle, that stont upon a roche, the whiche is cleped the Castelle of the Sparrehawk, that is bezonde the cytee of
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And it was somtyme a cytee of Cristenemen, fulle fair; but it is now destroyed: and it stont upon the see.
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This ymage stont upon a pylere of marble at Constantynoble.
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After for to speke of Jerusalem, the holy cytee, zee schulle undirstonde, that it stont fulle faire betwene hilles: and there ben no ryveres ne welles; but watre comethe be condyte from Ebron.
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And in that contree is an old castelle, that stont upon a roche, the whiche is cleped the Castelle of the Sparrehawk, that is bezonde the cytee of
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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This ymage stont upon a pylere of marble at Constantynoble.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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After for to speke of Jerusalem, the holy cytee, zee schulle undirstonde, that it stont fulle faire betwene hilles: and there ben no ryveres ne welles; but watre comethe be condyte from Ebron.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And it was somtyme a cytee of Cristenemen, fulle fair; but it is now destroyed: and it stont upon the see.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And in that contree is an old castelle, that stont upon a roche, the whiche is cleped the Castelle of the Sparrehawk, that is bezonde the cytee of Layays, beside the town of
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Cristenemen, fulle fair; but it is now destroyed: and it stont upon the see.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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