wrought

«wrought» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: made; worked; caused — 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

made; worked; caused

part of speech

verb, past tense of work (old form)

meaning for a pupil

Made, shaped, or caused something to happen. tree →

how it differs from today

Today we say "worked" or "made"; "wrought" survives only in set phrases such as "wrought iron".

examples

• And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all wrought jewels. (Torah NUM.31.51, JPS 1917) tree →
• Our man paused when he beheld what he had wrought. (The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault) tree →
• and in all the mighty hand, and in all the great terror, which Moses wrought in the sight of all Israel. (Torah DEU.34.12, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

wrought

tests

manual 6; corpora 49 (Torah 19, tales 30, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 5.6 (Torah alone 44.3); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary, came every man from his work which they wrought.
• And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all wrought jewels.
• and in all the mighty hand, and in all the great terror, which Moses wrought in the sight of all Israel.
• And the people said unto Saul: 'Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel?
• And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.

Trees and pragmatics

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