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- verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of
warn .
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Examples
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O Queen, the Snares of the Wicked are laid for thee this Night, therefore sleep not from thy Husband; for I am warn'd in a Dream because of thee; having said these Words, he went strait away.
Exilius 2008
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Thus warn'd, they shut their gates; with shouts ascend
The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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My son warn'd him not to lodge at his house; Daughter said she had as much to doe with the house as he.
Woman's Life in Colonial Days Carl Holliday
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She well knew the most trivial might be to them of the worst consequence: -- when they were call'd to an account for what was pass'd, or warn'd how to avoid the like for the future, her manner was so determin'd and persuasive, as if she was examining her own conscience, to rectify every spot and blemish in it.
Barford Abbey Susannah Minific Gunning
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Bellcour imitates her, while Mirtamene “warn'd by the example of Bellcour, that Interest, Absence, or a new Passion, can make the most seeming constant Lover false, took a Resolution ever to contemn and hate that betraying Sex to which she owed her Misfortune and the Sight of such a Disaster as she had beheld in Alathia.”
The Life and Romances of Mrs Eliza Haywood Whicher, George Frisbie 1915
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"| Be warn'd in time by others 'harm, and you shall do full well! |"
The Book of Humorous Verse Various 1902
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This distemper, as we were not sufficiently warn'd or apprized of, threw our musical affairs into perplexities we knew not easily how to get out of.
The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Edward Robins 1902
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Thy Word is always True; and very Particular, that Word of thine which has told us and warn'd us, _Evil Pursueth
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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Headlong to fall: when thus the instructor warn'd:
The Book of the Epic 1894
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The Merit of the best of them is not so extraordinary as to have warn'd me to be nice upon it; and the Praise due to them is so small a Fish, it was scarce worth while to throw my Line into the Water for it.
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