Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete preterit and past participle of reach.
- An obsolete preterit and past participle of reck.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. & p. p. of
reach . - imp. & p. p. of
reck .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete Simple past tense and past participle of
reach . - verb obsolete Simple past tense and past participle of
reck .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word raught.
Examples
-
Your'e absolutely raught Mr "no context guy" , The Idiots that come on my show all listen to Rapp music....
-
I would say it is often useful to suspend, when engaging in boundries of the conceptually unknown, predisposed judgement, but that this practice is just a relaxation of the focused attenuation often implicit in intuition–it is not the concertated dimissal of what progress science has raught.
-
And raught not to five weeks when he came to five-score.
-
"Ful semèly after hire meat she raught," which Mr Horne improves into ---
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various
-
All furious and fierce, and he raught up from resting
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
-
And raught not to five weeks when he came to five-score.
-
The auld guidman raught down the pock, [reached, bag]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
-
S. Mark, and anon he raught him a spear by which he was saved, and for this cause he came anon in pilgrimage to Venice and told this miracle.
The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900
-
And therefore many bishops despised him, but he raught not if he did it to be done by the said Augustin, that which he could not do himself.
The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900
-
Clinging, or seeming to cling, to the trunk of a tree that, caught Fast in the rocks below, scarce out of the surges raught.
Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.