Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Third person singular present indicative of have: now archaic or poetical.
  • noun A Hindu unit of length, equal to 18 inches.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • verb Archaic. Has.

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

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Examples

  • God hath set_ them, _hath put, set_ -- Tremellius out of the Syriac.

    The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London

  • The first _he_, in the last example, is redundant; yet the construction is sometimes admissible, for the expression is more forcible than it would be to say, "Let him hear who hath ears to hear;" and if we adopt the ingenious method of Mr. Smith, the sentence is grammatical, and may be rendered thus; "He that hath ears, _hath ears_ to hear; let him hear."

    English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham

  • True, as Paul says, God “hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son;” but notice, it is “_hath spoken_.”

    The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity Charles Ebert Orr 1897

  • He that hath not the Son _hath not Life_; but he that hath the Son hath Life -- a new and distinct and supernatural endowment.

    Natural Law in the Spiritual World Henry Drummond 1874

  • Chosen Ones of God that which separateth the believer from the infidel and the lover from the beloved, this term hath been so employed, and apart from this dividing and separating no other meaning is intended.

    Gems of Divine Mysteries 1817-1892 Bah��'u'll��h 1854

  • A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.

    Fret Not 2009

  • My body is vanished and gone, though my name hath not yet deserted me.

    Orestes 2008

  • Her name hath a prophetic sound; tell me what she doth.

    Helen 2008

  • My body is vanished and gone, though my name hath not yet deserted me.

    Orestes 2008

  • Her name hath a prophetic sound; tell me what she doth.

    Helen 2008

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