hewn

«hewn» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: cut — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

cut

part of speech

verb, past participle of hew; also adjective

meaning for a pupil

Cut or shaped with an axe, tool or saw. tree →

how it differs from today

Today we usually say "cut" or "carved", and "hewed" is the more common form. "Hewn" is an old past participle, used here as a form of "hew".

examples

• And if thou make Me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast profaned it. (Torah EXO.20.25, JPS 1917) tree →
• Fail in this, and you shall be hewn in a thousand pieces.’ (The Pink Fairy Book) tree →
• and houses full of all good things, which thou didst not fill, and cisterns hewn out, which thou the didst not hew, vineyards and olive-trees, which thou didst not plant, and thou shalt eat and be satisfied — (Torah DEU.6.11, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

hewn

tests

manual 6; corpora 19 (Torah 2, tales 15, Sefer Yetzirah 2); EWT 0; ratio 2.2 (Torah alone 4.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And the king commanded, and they quarried great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with hewn stone.
• And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar beams.
• And above were costly stones, after the measure of hewn stones, and cedar-wood.
• Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars;
• He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, He hath made my paths crooked.

Trees and pragmatics

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