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Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A Middle English form of east.
- n. Grace; favor.
- n. A suffix of adjectives, forming the superlative degree, as in coldest, deepest, greatest, biggest, etc. See -er.
- n. The suffix of the second person singular of the present and preterit indicative of English verbs, often syncopated to -st: as, present singest or singst, doest or dost, hast, etc., preterit sangest, sungest, thoughtest or thoughtst, diddest or didst, hadst, etc. Its use in the preterit of strong verbs is comparatively recent and is rare (the auxiliary construction thou didst sing, etc., being used instead); and, owing to the disappearance of thou in ordinary speech, its use in either tense is now confined almost entirely to the language of prayer and poetry.
- n. Abbreviations of established.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete Grace; favour.
- adj. Abbreviation of established.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete East.
WordNet 3.0
- n. standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian; used in the eastern United States
Etymologies
- From Middle English este, from Old English ēst ("will, consent, favour, grace, liberality, munificence, bounty, kindness, love, good pleasure, harmony, liberal gifts, luxuries"), from Proto-Germanic *anstiz (“favour, affection”), from Proto-Indo-European *ān- (“to notice; face, mouth”). Cognate with Icelandic ást ("affection, love"), Dutch gunst ("favour, grace, courtesy, privilege"), German Gunst ("favour, goodwill, boon"), Danish yndest ("favour"), Swedish ynnest ("favour, indulgence, grace"). More at own. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“_Non est vegetabile quod in fluxionibus alvi efficacius est_.”
“Sometimes a Tertullian voices this abdication of the reasoning faculty defiantly -- _certum est quia impossibile est_; but more often perhaps the same position {26} is expressed in the spirit of Tennyson's well-known lines, which, indeed, bear directly upon our immediate theme: --”
“_Justa autem bella solent definiri quæ ulciscuntur injurias, si gens vel civitas plectenda est, quod vel vindicare neglexerit quod a suis improbe factum est, vel reddere quod per injuriam ablatum est_.”
“Et cum hoec dixisset, conversa est retrorsum, et vidit Jesum stantem: et non sciebat quia Jesus est_.”
“` ` _Conclamatum est, poculatum est_, '' said Prior”
“_Et moi aussi, je reste dans mon trou, et mon trou est assez beau pour que j'y reste, car mon trou est_ -- Richard Wagner.”
“_Victor locutus est: causa finita est_ (he liked tags of not recondite Latin himself).”
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
“I can answer all the objections of Satan and my rebellious reason with that odd resolution I learned of Tertullian, _Certum est quia impossible est_.”
“_Ut ad bella suscipienda Gallorum alacer et promptus est animus, sic mollis ac minime resistens ad calamitates perferendas mens eorum est_.”
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
“I can answer all the objections of Satan and my rebellious reason with that odd resolution I learned of Tertullian, _Certum est quia impossibile est_.”
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