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  • verb archaic second-person singular past form of come.

Etymologies

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came -est, the archaic second-person singular tense suffix.

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Examples

  • There be room in his bidarka for two, and he would that thou camest with him.

    Nam-Bok, the Unveracious 2010

  • There be room in his bidarka for two, and he would that thou camest with him.

    NAM-BOK THE UNVERACIOUS 2010

  • Mat 22: 12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment?

    The Long, Modest Gowns Painted by Peter Severin Kroyer (1851-1909) 2009

  • When the general's Rolling Stone indiscretions appeared, President Obama called him back, to ask, "How camest thou in this pickle?" and then to boot him.

    Ken Adelman: Bard Blog on McChrystal's Firing 2010

  • When the general's Rolling Stone indiscretions appeared, President Obama called him back, to ask, "How camest thou in this pickle?" and then to boot him.

    Ken Adelman: Bard Blog on McChrystal's Firing 2010

  • It then corroborates what the Bible validates: “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations” Jeremiah 1:5.

    FROM THE CROSS TO PENTECOST T. D. JAKES 2010

  • How camest thou hither, tell me, and wot teh heck foar?

    Wow. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • So thou camest, sir stranger, to Ilium's famous town?

    Helen 2008

  • But how camest thou, poor husband, safe from Troy? though 'tis no gain to know, yet friends feel a longing to learn all that their friends have suffered.

    Helen 2008

  • Thou camest, O Paris, to the place where thou wert reared to herd the kine amid the white heifers of Ida, piping in foreign strain and breathing on thy reeds an echo of the Phrygian airs Olympus played.

    Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

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