smite

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

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

strike

part of speech

verb, base form

meaning for a pupil

To hit hard, or to strike down and destroy. tree →

how it differs from today

Old word; today we say hit or strike. The sentences use the old sense of hitting or striking down, sometimes killing.

examples

• 'Harass the Midianites, and smite them; (Torah NUM.25.17, JPS 1917) tree →
• Then the King’s daughter said: ‘Shame on you thus to smite the beloved of my heart. (The Red Fairy Book) tree →
• Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour in secret. (Torah DEU.27.24, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

smite

tests

manual 10.4; corpora 41 (Torah 33, tales 8, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 4.6 (Torah alone 77.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• And I will put forth My hand, and smite Egypt with all My wonders which I will do in the midst thereof.
• And seven days were fulfilled, after that the LORD had smitten the river.
• (7-27) And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs.
• And the flax and the barley were smitten; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.
• But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten; for they ripen late. —

Trees and pragmatics

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