makest

«makest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you make — 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

you make

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«makest» means «you make», a form of «make»: To make is to build, cook or create something: make a cake. 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 makest» = «you make».

examples

• And every day shalt thou offer the bullock of sin-offering, beside the other offerings of atonement; and thou shalt do the purification upon the altar when thou makest atonement for it; and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it. (Torah EXO.29.36, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «make», 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

• The way of the just is straight; Thou, Most Upright, makest plain the path of the just.
• And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
• In peace will I both lay me down and sleep; for Thou, LORD, makest me dwell alone in safety.
• For Thou makest him most blessed for ever; Thou makest him glad with joy in Thy presence.
• They are abundantly satisfied with the fatness of Thy house; and Thou makest them drink of the river of Thy pleasures.

Trees and pragmatics

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