Definitions
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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
debate .
Etymologies
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debate + -eth
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Examples
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A Yucaian cacique, who was forced with his old subjects to labour in the mines, at last "calling those miners into an house, to the number of ninety - five, he thus debateth with them:" --
Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc James Anthony Froude 1856
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A Yucatan cacique, who was forced with his old subjects to labour in the mines, at last 'calling those miners into an house, to the number of ninety-five, he thus debateth with them:' --
Short Studies on Great Subjects James Anthony Froude 1856
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