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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of strike.

Etymologies

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strike + -eth, the archaic third-person singular present tense suffix

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Examples

  • He enlarged a good deal on the word striketh, which he assured his hearers comprehended blows given with the point as well as with the edge, and more generally, shooting with hand-gun, cross-bow, or long-bow, thrusting with a lance, or doing any thing whatever by which death might be occasioned to the adversary.

    The Abbot 2008

  • Then said I, Ah Lord Yahweh, Verily Thou hast deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying There shall be peace! — whereas the sword striketh to the life!

    Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 George Adam Smith 1899

  • Fear not Aunty Q, for The Steve permitteth not the lightning to striketh an iMac.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Gettin paid to watch TV… 2010

  • Only now do the fools discover that our great Lord and Savior has promised us immortality through torture - the Bibo Sez And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

    Pew: The more often you go to church, the more likely you think torture of terrorists can be justified | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

  • “I trust,” said the minister, “ye have reflected weel on what ye have done, lest you should minister cause of strife, of which it is my duty to say, he who affordeth matter, albeit he himself striketh not, is in no manner guiltless.”

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • The sermon, by means of which Henry Warden purposed to restore concord and good order to the Castle of Avenel, bore for text the well-known words, “He who striketh with the sword shall perish by the sword,” and was a singular mixture of good sense and powerful oratory with pedantry and bad taste.

    The Abbot 2008

  • Then I looked upon the pear whose taste surpasseth sherbet and sugar; and the apricot294 whose beauty striketh the eye with admiration, as if she were a polished ruby.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Let the court not be paved, for that striketh up a great heat in summer, and much cold in winter.

    The Essays 2007

  • O omnipotent Lord, may though striketh down Fred and Nancy, in thine infinite wisdom, before the SEC gets to them.

    Caption contest 2007

  • Lo! on my sense there striketh the smell of a shell-covered tortoise

    ENTANGLED MINDS DEAN RADIN 2006

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