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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dream.

Etymologies

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dream + -eth

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Examples

  • His sonnet “The Firetails Nest” ends with a couplet that Clare could have written standing next to me in Horner Wood: “Of everything that stirs she dreameth wrong/And pipes her ‘tweet tut’ fears the whole day long …”

    A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

  • Holy Scripture saith a dream cometh from the Lord; leastways, to a man of sense, as hardly ever dreameth.

    Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

  • As a wanderer who dreameth of remote things on a lonesome highway, runneth unawares against a sleeping dog, a dog which lieth in the sun: —

    Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

  • But the king made a iest of these and the like tales; "He is a right moonke (saith he) and to haue a péece of monie, he dreameth such things, giue him therefore an hundred shillings, and bid him dreame of better fortune to our person."

    Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (2 of 12) William Rufus Raphael Holinshed

  • And as he that is hungry dreameth, and eateth, but when he is awake, his soul is empty: and as he that is thirsty dreameth, and drinketh and after he is awake, is yet faint with thirst, and his soul is empty: so shall be the multitude of all the Gentiles, that have fought against mount Sion.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2 Anonymous

  • And as he that is hungry dreameth, and eateth, but when he is awake, his soul is empty: and as he that is thirsty dreameth, and drinketh and after he is awake, is yet faint with thirst, and his soul is empty: so shall be the multitude of all the Gentiles, that have fought against mount Sion.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous

  • And as he that is hungry dreameth, and eateth, but when he is awake, his soul is empty: and as he that is thirsty dreameth, and drinketh and after he is awake, is yet faint with thirst, and his soul is empty: so shall be the multitude of all the Gentiles, that have fought against mount Sion.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision

  • And as he that is hungry dreameth, and eateth, but when he is awake, his soul is empty: and as he that is thirsty dreameth, and drinketh and after he is awake, is yet faint with thirst, and his soul is empty: so shall be the multitude of all the Gentiles, that have fought against mount Sion.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

  • For so long as he doeth this, he seeketh himself, and dreameth that he is himself the highest good ....

    Practical Mysticism 1875-1941 1915

  • I am sure they never knew another; and he that dreameth of another way must be content to go beside.

    The World's Great Sermons, Volume 02 Hooker to South Grenville Kleiser 1910

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