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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
vex .
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Examples
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Out, hyperbolical fiend! how vexest thou this man! talkest thou nothing but of ladies?
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'Why, fair my lord, vexest thou one sick at heart and trembling at thy bitter words?
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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Out, hyperbolical fiend! how vexest thou this man!
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"Lift up thine eyes, and thou wilt see that all men eat whatever comes to hand -- fish, creeping and crawling creatures, swine's flesh, and all sorts of things like these, and thou vexest thyself about a dish of lentils."
The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1 Louis Ginzberg 1913
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If that which bears all things bears thee, bear thou and be borne; and if thou art indignant and vexest thyself, even so that which bears all things bears thee.
Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902
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And then said S. Dominic: I conjure thee, wicked spirit, that thou tell to me wherefore thou vexest thus the creature of God, and wherefore and how thou enteredst here?
The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900
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` ` Out, hyperbolical fiend, '' replied the Chief, laughing; ` ` how vexest thou this man!
The Waverley 1877
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[32] 'Out, hyperbolic fiend! how vexest thou this man?'
Studies in Literature and History Alfred Comyn Lyall 1873
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Lord, who dealest large boons to the Lords of Earth, * Whom thou vexest not nor dost hold them bound
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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If impatiently thou frettest and vexest at thy wrongs, the hurt which thou dost thyself is more than that which thine enemy can do to thee.
The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842
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