Camest

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    second-person singular simple past indicative of come archaic, form-of, indicative, past, second-person, singular

    "But at the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt."

Example

More examples

"But they said: Get thee back thither. And again: Thou camest in, said they, as a stranger, was it to be a judge? therefore we will afflict thee more than them. And they pressed very violently upon Lot: and they were even at the point of breaking open the doors."

Etymology

came + -est.

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