leadest

«leadest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you lead — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you lead

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«leadest» means «you lead», a form of «lead»: To lead (leed) is to go in front and show the way, or to be in charge of a group. 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 leadest» = «you lead».

examples

• “O mighty Death! thy silence teaches nought, Thou leadest only to the near grave's brink; Is broken now the ladder of my thoughts? (Andersen's Fairy Tales) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «lead», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 0, tales 1, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

Trees and pragmatics

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