thoughten

English

Etymology

From thought +‎ -en (past participle ending).

Verb

thoughten

1. (nonstandard) past participle of think.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• thoghten, þoghten, þoughten, þoȝten, þouȝten

Etymology

thought +‎ -en (verbal plural suffix).

Verb

thoughten

1. plural past of thinken.
   • c. 1450, Prose Merlin:

     And in the menewhile that thei thoughten upon these thinges that thei hadde seyn, the squyer com the thridde tyme and smote his lorde sorer than he hadde don before.

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   • c. 1500, The Turke and Sir Gawain:

     All the giants thoughten then
     To have strucke out Sir Gawaines braine.

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   • 1589, George Peele, An Eclogue Gratulatory:

     And for their mistress, thoughten the two swains,
     They moughten never take too mickle pains;

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