Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Obsolete preterits of shall.
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Examples
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According to their argument, the problem was that the government might run short of funds necessary for national defense "if we shulde have solde such juelles, plate or other riche hanginges for the said perfourmaunce of the will."
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She, however, refused to name the rumor-mongers and explained in the letter that, if she did name names, people would then label her a tattletale: "that shulde be but a briding of a ivel name of me ... and so get the ivel wil of the people, wiche thinge I wolde be lothe to have."
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I truste, Maddam, you wulde not let master cum to harme, if you knoed it, by any body who may pretend to be acquented with him: but for fere, I querid with myself if I shulde not tell him.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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First use of the term was in a 1303 rhyme: “For to make hym be ashamede that he shulde be so defamede.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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First use of the term was in a 1303 rhyme: “For to make hym be ashamede that he shulde be so defamede.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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First use of the term was in a 1303 rhyme: “For to make hym be ashamede that he shulde be so defamede.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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First use of the term was in a 1303 rhyme: “For to make hym be ashamede that he shulde be so defamede.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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Whittingham, Maister Gilby, Maister Fox and Maister T. Cole shulde drawe forthe some Order meete for their state and time: whiche thinge was by them accomplished and offred to the congregation (beinge the same Order off Geneua whiche is nowe in print).
The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics Alexander F. Mitchell
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Stirling, ... and there received open pennance and a solempne othe, in the presence and hereing of all men that was there, that he shulde never doo the same againe, but supporte and defende the professon and habit of mounkes, freres, and such other; and therupon, being absolved by the
The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics Alexander F. Mitchell
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For S. Bartholomewes -- I meane not to pulle it downe, but to change it for a Churche more conveniente ... unlesse some strange opinion shulde arise that prayer were more acceptable under leade than under sclate.
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