criest

«criest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you cry — 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 cry

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«criest» means «you cry», a form of «cry»: To cry is to have tears come from your eyes because you are sad, hurt, or very happy. 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 criest» = «you cry».

examples

• And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Wherefore criest thou unto Me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward. (Torah EXO.14.15, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «cry», 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

• Why criest thou for thy hurt, that thy pain is incurable?

Trees and pragmatics

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