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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. Archaic Uttered; said. Used only in the first and third persons, with the subject following: "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore!'” ( Edgar Allan Poe).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Preterit of quethe.

Wiktionary

  1. v. Simple past of quethe.; said

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. 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.

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, from Old English cwǣth, third person sing. past tense of cwethan, to say; see gwet- in Indo-European roots.

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