describeth

And aside from that, the word dictionary is first attested in 1526 "And so Peter Bercharius in his dictionary describeth it", not 1538, and dictionarius or dictionarium had been used for centuries in Latin, so that the English word hardly needed to be "invented"; again, this information is right there in the OED.

languagehat.com: MORE BAD WRITING. 2004

For natural history describeth the variety of things; physic the causes, but variable or respective causes; and metaphysic the fixed and constant causes.

The Advancement of Learning 2003

Neither is that pleasure of small efficacy and contentment to the mind of man, which the poet Lucretius describeth elegantly: — “Suave mari magno, turbantibus aequora ventis, &c.”

The Advancement of Learning 2003

The first describeth the times of the militant Church, whether it be fluctuant, as the ark of Noah, or movable, as the ark in the wilderness, or at rest, as the ark in the Temple: that is, the state of the Church in persecution, in remove, and in peace.

The Advancement of Learning 2003

But whosoever knoweth any form, knoweth the utmost possibility of superinducing that nature upon any variety of matter; and so is less restrained in operation, either to the basis of the matter, or the condition of the efficient; which kind of knowledge Solomon likewise, though in a more divine sense, elegantly describeth: non arctabuntur gressus tui, et currens non habebis offendiculum.

The Advancement of Learning 2003

So some measure things according to the labour and difficulty or assiduity which are spent about them; and think, if they be ever moving, that they must needs advance and proceed; as Caesar saith in a despising manner of Cato the second, when he describeth how laborious and indefatigable he was to no great purpose, Haec omnia magno studio agebat.

The Advancement of Learning 2003

This Island (as Iohn Huighen van Linschotten describeth it) is replenished with manifold commodities, as namely with goates, wilde swine, Turkies, partridges, pidgeons, &c.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, saying,

Romans 4. 1999

¶ For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.

Romans 10. 1999

The state wherein he describeth himself to have been, the matter of his pleas and prayers contained in them, with sundry express circumstances regarding that season, and his condition therein, do manifest that to have been the time of their composure.

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968