shewed

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

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

showed

part of speech

verb, past tense of shew

meaning for a pupil

Let someone see something, or made something plain, in the past. tree →

how it differs from today

Old spelling of showed; today we write showed. The sentences use the same sense.

examples

• He was shewed up stairs into the King's apartment, and, making a low reverence, said to him: (The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault) tree →
• For He shewed the combination of these letters, each with the other; Aleph with all, and all with Aleph; Beth with all, and all with Beth. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
• And here is the finger with the ring.’ And with these words the bride drew forth the finger and shewed it to the assembled guests. (Grimms' Fairy Tales) tree →

tests

manual 6; corpora 9 (Torah 0, tales 5, Sefer Yetzirah 4); EWT 0; ratio 1.0 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

Trees and pragmatics

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