beatest

«beatest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you beat — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you beat

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«beatest» means «you beat», a form of «beat»: To beat is to win against someone. tree →

how it differs from today

Only the ending is old: -est or -st was the ending used with thou, which today is you with no ending: «thou beatest» = «you beat».

examples

• When thou beatest thine olive-tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. (Torah DEU.24.20, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «beat», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 1, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• Thou beatest him with the rod, and wilt deliver his soul from the nether-world.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «beatest» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.