verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   simple past of go, now replaced by went. form-of, obsolete, past
2. 2
   To go (mistakenly used as a pseudo-archaism by 16th-century poets and their imitators). literary, obsolete

   "The whiles on foot was forced for to yeed, / With that blacke Palmer, his moſt truſty guide;"

Synonyms

All synonyms

went

Example

More examples

"The whiles on foot was forced for to yeed, / With that blacke Palmer, his moſt truſty guide;"

Etymology

From Middle English ȝede, from Old English ēode.

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