smote

alternative smot

1. pastsimple past of smite

   Hounds whimpered and marked at the stick-pile. Their many tongues smote all other sounds from Tarka’s ears.

   1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19

2. colloquialnonstandardparticiplepastpast participle of smite

   As thy eye beames, when their freſh rayſe haue ſmot.

   c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 132

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   "We should have smote him," continued the ex-president of the Directory, still fretful from his misfortune;[…]

   1828, Laure Junot duchesse d'Abrantès, Memoirs of the Duchess d'Abrantés, volume 1, page 197

   The world 'as got me snouted jist a treat; Crool Forchin's dirty left 'as smote me soul.

   1915, C.J. Dennis, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, published 1916, page 13

   So that's the story- God did not smote us for that story. We finished the whole thing. Penn Jillette in Las Vegas with Michale Goudeau- we'll be back, we'll take some phone calls. God hath not smote my ass!

   2006 January 4, Penn Jillette, Michael Goudeau, 19:01 from the start, in Penn Radio, number 2

   "God has use for Satan, or He would have smote him centuries ago. In any case, Captain Dan is nothing without Barbary. He will shrivel and drift before the first clean draught that blows unhampered across the ruins.”

   2008 February 5, Loren D. Estleman, Port Hazard: A Page Murdock Novel, →ISBN, page 261

3. pastsimple past of smight