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- verb Obsolete spelling of
craft .
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Examples
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Incendiary bugger and smartarsed little oik are among my favourites so far, but if anyone spots any more carefully crafte insults be sure to let me know.
I Link therefore I am Newmania 2007
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So that thei neither disdaine to be taughte, nor the hatred of eche other, ne any thing elles withdraweth them from their crafte.
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Now shall you vnderstande what crafte they vsed to deceyue our carauans.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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"The crafte of graffynge, and plantyne, and alterynge of fruyts, as well in colours, as in taste."
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton
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The woodcuts which appeared in the first edition of the "Ordinary" printed in 1502 are in this second edition replaced by others of different design and better execution, borrowed mainly from "The crafte to lyve well and to dye well", printed by de Worde in 1505 and like the present work translated by Chertsey from a French original, _L'art de bien vivre et de bien mourir_.
Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University Addison Van Name
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Clinton summoning every inhabitant of the city "usinge the exercise of eny kynde of water crafte" before the lord high admiral or his deputy at
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Chronicle of 1503, which contains also a chapter upon "the crafte of graffynge & plantynge & alterynge of fruyts."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various
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The Quene, than Regent, perseving that hir crafte began to be espiit, be all meaneis possebill travellit to blynd the pepill.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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Hengest hadde one wisneman {;} þat wel couþe of crafte.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Anybody who is curious as to medieval methods of illuminating should read a little fifteenth-century treatise which describes "the crafte of lymnynge of bokys."
Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages 1911
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