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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Quoth \Quoth\, v. t. [AS. cwe[edh]an, imp cw[91][edh], pl. cw[aemac]don; akin to OS. que[edh]an, OHG. quethan, quedan, Icel. kve[edh]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. [bd]Let me not live, quoth he.[b8] --Shak. |