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  • verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of employ.

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employ +‎ -est

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Examples

  • But I had not rebuked him, but Thou, who employest all, knowing or not knowing, in that order which Thyself knowest (and that order is just), didst of my heart and tongue make burning coals, by which to set on fire the hopeful mind, thus languishing, and so cure it.

    The Confessions 1999

  • O monarch, employest thou in thy business persons that are thievish or open to temptation, or hostile, or minors?

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • O monarch, employest thou in thy business persons that are thievish or open to temptation, or hostile, or minors?

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Sabha Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • All for the sake of a poor man of no account, whom thou employest for a week, and after that wilt see no more.

    Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 Marmaduke William Pickthall 1905

  • If thy life is good, if thou carefully abstainest from sin, if thou employest thy time usefully, if thou dost truly humble thyself in the sight of the Lord, and sigh after God and thy heavenly home, thou dost always pray; for a holy life and holy desires are a continual prayer before God.

    Spiritual Works of Louis of Blois 1506-1566 1903

  • If thou wrongly employest the confession of one God to deny the Godhead of Christ, on the ground that where one God exists He must be regarded as solitary, and that to be

    NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus 1898

  • The power of a single angel we see in that one, who in one night destroyed almost two hundred thousand in Sennacherib's army, [117] yet thou often employest many; as we know the power of salvation is abundantly in any one evangelist, and yet thou hast afforded us four.

    Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel John Donne 1601

  • Thou dost not stick to infringe her universal and undoubted laws; but stickest to thy own special and fantastic rules, and by how much more particular, uncertain, and contradictory they are, by so much thou employest thy whole endeavour in them: the laws of thy parish occupy and bind thee: those of God and the world concern thee not.

    The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 15 Michel de Montaigne 1562

  • Thou dost not stick to infringe her universal and undoubted laws; but stickest to thy own special and fantastic rules, and by how much more particular, uncertain, and contradictory they are, by so much thou employest thy whole endeavour in them: the laws of thy parish occupy and bind thee: those of God and the world concern thee not.

    The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562

  • 6 But I had not rebuked him, but Thou, who employest all, knowing or not knowing, in that order which Thyself knowest (and that order is just), didst of my heart and tongue make burning coals, by which to set on fire the hopeful mind, thus languishing, and so cure it.

    The Sixth Book 1909

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