mayest

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A form of may — To be strong; to have power (over).

UncommonScrabble 11

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verb

alternative maist · alternative may'st · alternative maiest · alternative mayst

  1. archaicindicativepresentsecond personsingularsecond-person singular simple present indicative of may

    Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.

    , Acts 24:8
    1 more example

    [M]ay heaven grant all that thou mayest request just as thou considereth the place and plight to which thy absence hath led me and respondeth with the favor merited by my faithfulness!

    Part 1 published in 1605, Part 2 in 1615, translated in 2003, Miguel de Cervantes and translated by Edith Grossman, Don Quixote, page 196

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