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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
die .
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Examples
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A house while he liueth, and a graue ready made when he dyeth.
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They acknowledge not the resurrection of the deade, but when a man dyeth they thinke he neuer riseth again: In their houses they have great painted Deuils, before the which they place wax candles, and sing vnto them, praying them not to hurt them, and the more monstrous that their shapes be, the more they honour them.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Let the fourth direction exclude the restraint of a body more grossly transparent than air, as in flame, being a body compounded between air and a finer substance than air; which flame if it were not for the smoke, which is the third substance that incorporateth itself and dyeth the flame, would be more perfect white.
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And whenever he dyeth new stuff, we all flock to him and divert ourselves by gazing upon his handiwork, for we have no dyers in our land who know how to stain with these colors.
Tehran Winter Naipaul, V.S. 1981
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Thou onely vauntest of thy gentry: truely thou wast made a gentleman before thou knewest what honesty meant, and no more hast thou to boast of thy stocke, than he, who being left rich by his father, dyeth a beggar by his folly.
A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman
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And Let vs not feare the desolatiõ of the churche/for wher one of our brethern dyeth/or flyeth for the doctrine/in his rowm shall rise vp a great sorte.
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[Sidenote: Nereids.] ++Nereydes be monsters of {th} e see, all rowghe of body/& whan any of them dyeth, tha {n} the other wepe. of this is spoke {n} in balena, the
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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The sanguyne wareth ofte {n} tymes so olde through gode gouernau {n} ce/that he must occopy spectacles, & liue longe or hu {m} midu {m} radicale departe frome him/but than he dyeth.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Fly to arms, and let Christendom re-echo with the words of the prophet, 'Woe to him who dyeth not his sword with blood!'
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 1830
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[353] A slave dyeth. died an Indian slave, whose name was Salvador.
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