This is the time for smiting your chest with your hand, and talking loud to keep up the circulation.Īnd yet at this very juncture, Crabbe's poetic conscience smites him.Īnd would he not smite the rocks for water? Hush, ere she smite you and entrap you fast. 'The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4' by American Anti-Slavery Society If a man smite his servant or his maid with a rod, and he die under his hand, he shall be surely punished. 'The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson' by Saemund Sigfusson and Snorre Sturleson

With a taming-wand I smite thee, and I will tame thee, maiden! 'The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead.' 'Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.', To strike to inflict a blow upon with the hand, or with any instrument held in the hand, or with a missile thrown by the hand as, to smite with the fist, with a rod, sword, spear, or stone. 'The heart melteth, and the knees smite together.' 'Smit with the love of sister arts we came.' 'The charms that smite the simple heart.', To strike or affect with passion, as love or fear. To put to rout in battle to overthrow by war. To destroy the life of by beating, or by weapons of any kind to slay by a blow to kill as, to smite one with the sword, or with an arrow or other instrument. 'Prophesy, and smite thine hands together.', To cause to strike to use as an instrument in striking or hurling. To blast to destroy the life or vigor of, as by a stroke or by some visitation. 'Let us not mistake God's goodness, nor imagine, because he smites us, that we are forsaken by him.'

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