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  • adjective Obsolete form of vanquished.
  • verb obsolete Simple past tense and past participle of vanquish.

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Examples

  • Princes may be lead but not driuen, nor they are to be vanquisht by allegation, but must be suffered to haue the victorie and be relented vnto: nor they are not to be challenged for right or iustice, for that is

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • Thus was that wildling flung by Theseus and vanquisht of body, 110

    The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855

  • Mr. Masson speaks of "the Miltonic forms _vanquisht, markt, lookt_, etc."

    Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855

  • Oh! what damn'd luck had I so poorly to be vanquisht!

    The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II Aphra Behn 1664

  • No, my Passion, like great Victors, hates the lazy stay; but having vanquisht, prepares for new Conquests.

    The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II Aphra Behn 1664

  • The bay (quoth she) is of the victours borne, yielded them by the vanquisht as theyr meeds, and they therewith doe poetes heads adorne, to sing the glory of their famous deedes.

    Amoretti and Epithalamion 1594

  • The Milaneses when Duke Philip was dead, entertaind Francis Sforza into their pay against the Venetians, who having vanquisht their enemie at Caravaggio, afterwards joyned with them, where by to usurp upon the Milaneses his

    Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498

  • Aouto, of whose faith there could no proof be made, being he vanquisht not; but every one will acknowledge, that, had he vanquisht, the

    Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498

  • Carausius a Britan of vnknowne birth, as witnesseth the British histories, after he had vanquisht & slaine Bassianus (as the same histories make mention) was of the Britains made king and ruler ouer them, in the yeare of our Lord 218, as Galfridus saith: but W.H. [Sidenote: _Galfrid.

    Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England Raphael Holinshed

  • 729: For hand to hand he would haue vanquisht thee.

    Henry VI, Part Three (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623

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