Definitions

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  • verb archaic second-person singular past form of to make.

Etymologies

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From made +‎ -est, the archaic second-person singular present tense suffix.

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Examples

  • Our country is run by spineless mental midgets. -- madest

    Friday Feedback: Tom Strickland's rafting trip; name change at the Dept. of Navy; Gates and 'don't ask, don't tell' 2010

  • Thou madest known unto me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of gladness with thy countenance.

    Resurrection Sermon 2010

  • Thou knowest, O my God, who madest us, that nothing can satisfy us but Thyself, and therefore Thou hast caused Thy own self to be meat and drink to us.

    Catholicmomof10militant Catholic Mom of 10 2009

  • “Thou art he who madest brother covenant with me but yesterday: how quickly thou hast forgotten me!”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Quoth I, “Verily it was she who interpreted to me the signs thou madest and it was she who taught me how to come to thee and how I should deal with thee; and, but for her, I should never have been united to thee.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?

    The Dor�� Gallery of Bible Illustrations 2008

  • I have seen thee look at an old gravel pit, till thou madest out capes, and bays, and inlets, crags and precipices, and the whole stupendous scenery of the Isle of Feroe, in what was, to all ordinary eyes, a mere horse-pond.

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • He verily thou madest much of and whom thou entreatedest as an intimate, will work thy destruction.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • And know, O my father, with assured knowledge, that I consent to marry, but on condition that thou give me to wife her who lay by my side this night; for I am certain it was thou sentest her to me and madest me in love with her and then despatchedst a message to her before the dawn and tookest her away from beside me.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Know then that thy sire the Chamberlain, the father of Kuzia Fakan, hath heard of the verses thou madest anent her, and hath ordered that she be kept in the Harim and out of thy reach; if therefore, O my son, thou want anything from us, I will send it to thee from behind the door; and thou shalt not look upon Kuzia Fakan nor shalt thou return hither from this day forth.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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