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quoth |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Quoth \Quoth\, v. t. [AS. cwe[eth]an, imp cw[ae][eth], pl cw[=ae]don; akin to OS que[eth]an, OHG. quethan quedan, Icel. kve[eth]a, Goth. qi[thorn]an. [root]22. Cf {Bequeath}.] Said spoke; uttered; -- used only in the first and third persons in the past tenses, and always followed by its nominative, the word or words said being the object; as quoth I. quoth he ``Let me not live, quoth he.'' --Shak.
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