• Wast

    Pronunciation

    • Rhymes: -É’st

    Verb

    simple past form

    1. (archaic) Second-person singular past of be
      • 1600, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 4, Scene 2, (a hunting song),"Take thou no scorn to wear the horn, It was a crest ere thou wast born ..."
      • 1611, The Bible, King James (Authorised) Version, (first & last usages),Genesis 3:11 "And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?"Revelation 16:5 "And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus."
      • 1850, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel, lines 97-99Alas! We two, we two, thou say'st!Yea, one wast thou with meThat once of old.
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