prowde

The latest entry Sommer prowde with Daffadillies dight, Posted Saturday, April 30, 2005—there are no permalinks focuses on the word "dight," which I knew as an archaic word for 'adorn'; I probably once knew, but had forgotten, that it was from Latin dictāre 'to dictate, order.'

languagehat.com: DIGHT. 2005

An other of them had a cuppe full of pretious lyquor, better then that which the prowde _Cleopatra_ gaue vnto the Romane Captaine:

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

He was of a prowde, morose, and sullen nature, conversed much with bookes, havinge bene bredd a scholar, and (though nobly borne) a fellow of New-Colledge in

Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various

In this meantyme, four [840] zealous men, considdering how obstinat, prowde, and dispitefull the Bischope of Murray [841] had bein befoir; how he had threatned the town be his soldiouris and freindis, who lay in

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

Is not thilke same a goteheard prowde, that sittes on yonder bancke,

Shepheardes Calendar 1579

To quote Martin Luther, "The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn," and don't forget Thomas More's, "the devil … the prowde spirite … cannot endure to be mocked."

The Reality Check 2009

* We are going to trial a "this sucks" button, noting that MSWish does not prowde as much reformation as we would like.

Boycott Novell - Recent changes [en] 2009

* We are going to trial a "this sucks" button, noting that MSWish does not prowde as much reformation as we would like.

Boycott Novell - Recent changes [en] 2009