cam'st

A form of camest

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Meanings

verb
  1. obsoleteObsolete form of camest.

    Alonso: And Trinculo is reeling-ripe: where should they Find this grand liquor that hath gilded them? How cam’st thou in this pickle?

    1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]
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