Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A rare and nearly obsolete form of
didst .
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- verb archaic second person singular past tense of
do
Etymologies
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Examples
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Herewith the Magian turned and seeing Hasan, thought to wheedle him and said to him, “O my son, how diddest thou escape and who brought thee down to earth?”
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What can be more gracious than that she should answer thy letter when thou hast done what thou diddest?
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He hath done this deed in requital of that which thou diddest with him and he had it in his power to do with thee other than this thing; but he refrained therefrom out of courtesy and a desire that there should be love and friendship between us.
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She sat with eyes fixed upon the gate of the horse-course, noting all who entered and saying in her soul, O Thou who restoredest Joseph to Jacob and diddest away the sorrows of Job,316 vouchsafe of Thy might and Thy majesty to restore me my lord Ali Shar; for Thou over all things art Omnipotent, O Lord of the Worlds!
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He replied, “Didst thou not take it up in the basket thou diddest let down but now?”
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So they flew till they lighted at the tomb and she showed him the youth and said, “Now diddest thou ever in thy born days see aught like this?”
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Now I knew thee to be an evil doer when thou diddest to me what thou didst, and know, that when I have cast thee back into the sea, I will warn whomsoever may fish thee up of what hath befallen me with thee, and I will advise him to toss thee back again; so shalt thou abide here under these waters till the
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Marid,67 diddest thou say, Sulayman the Apostle of Allah; and Sulayman is dead some thousand and eight hundred years ago,68 and we are now in the last days of the world!
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Then she turned to them and after wishing them long life, asked them “Wherefore come ye?”, whereto they answered, “O thou holy man! diddest thou not hear us weep around thee?”
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Then I filled the cup a third time and he took a draught as thou diddest; after which he asked me, ‘O water-carrier, whence comest thou?’
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