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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bleed.

Etymologies

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bleed + -eth

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Examples

  • Discretion — O Claridiana! — true empress of this bleeding heart — which now bleedeth in sad earnest! —

    The Monastery 2008

  • How rare is it to meet with a man that smarteth or bleedeth with the

    The Reformed Pastor 1615-1691 1974

  • Sixthly, it is affirmed, that if you cannot get the Weapon, yet if you put an Instrument of Iron, or Wood, resembling the Weapon, into the Wound, whereby it bleedeth, the Annointing of that Instrument will serve, and work the Effect.

    Bygone Beliefs 1969

  • "Take a toad and dry him very well in the sun, then put him in a linen bag, and hang him with a string about the neck of the party that bleedeth, and let it hang so low that it may touch the breast on the left side near unto the heart; and this will certainly stay all manner of bleeding at the mouth, nose," &c.

    Notes and Queries, Number 61, December 28, 1850 Various

  • ‘His little hands are sore and his snout bleedeth,’ I said.

    The Case of the Late Pig Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1937

  • Moreover, "it is affirmed that if you cannot get the weapon, yet if you put an instrument of iron or wood resembling the weapon into the wound, whereby it bleedeth, the anointing of that instrument will serve and work the effect."

    The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

  • Moreover, “it is affirmed that if you cannot get the weapon, yet if you put an instrument of iron or wood resembling the weapon into the wound, whereby it bleedeth, the anointing of that instrument will serve and work the effect.

    Chapter 3. Sympathetic Magic. § 3. Contagious Magic 1922

  • Moreover, "it is affirmed that if you cannot get the weapon, yet if you put an instrument of iron or wood resembling the weapon into the wound, whereby it bleedeth, the anointing of that instrument will serve and work the effect."

    The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897

  • The Graal presented itself again in the chapel, and the lance whereof the point bleedeth, and the sword wherewith St John was beheaded that Messire Gawain won, and the other holy relics whereof was right great plenty.

    The High History of the Holy Graal Anonymous 1869

  • Thereon, lo you, two damsels that issue forth of a chapel, whereof the one holdeth in her hands the most Holy Graal, and the other the Lance whereof the point bleedeth thereinto.

    The High History of the Holy Graal Anonymous 1869

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