Meanings
- archaicindicativepresentsecond personsingularsecond-person singular simple present indicative of find
Seek and what thou findest that is thine, take with thee.
1903, Philip P. Wells, Bible Stories and Religious Classics2 more examples
The drop which thou shakest from thy wet hand, rests not where it falls, but to-morrow thou findest it swept away; already on the wings of the North-wind, it is nearing the Tropic of Cancer.
1831, Thomas Carlyle, Sartor ResartusRemember, that as thou findest favor with the council, thine own fate will be decided."
1872, J. Fenimore Cooper, The Bravo
Origin
- Proto-Germanic*finþizi
- Old Englishfindest
- Middle Englishfindest
- Englishfindest
From Middle English findest, from Old English findest, findst, fintst, finst, from Proto-Germanic *finþizi, equivalent to find + -est.
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