cloathe
English
editVerb
editcloathe (third-person singular simple present cloathes, present participle cloathing, simple past and past participle cloathed)
- Obsolete form of clothe.
- 1623, Anthony Munday, transl., The Theater of Honour and Knight-hood, or, A Compendious Chronicle and Historie of the Whole Christian World[1], London, translation of original by André Favyn, book 2, chapter 14, page 306:
- 1662, John Heydon, “Epistle Dedicatory”, in The Harmony of the World[2], London: Robert Horn:
- […] the Souls of men also shall then catch life from the more pure and Balsamick parts of the Earth, and be cloathed again in terrestriall bodies […]
- 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iv:
- The lofty mountains roſe faint to the ſight and loſt their foreheads in the diſtant ſkies: the little hills, cloathed in darker green and ſkirted with embroidered vales, diſcovered the ſecret haunts of kids and bounding roes.
- a. 1793, John Berridge, “To Lady Margaret Ingham”, in W. Holland, editor, The Christian’s Warfare and Crown. A Sermon occasioned by the death of the Rev. John Berridge, who departed this Life, Jan. 3, 1793: […], London: […] T. Wilkins, […], published 1793, page 28:
- I wiſh you had ſent with your bill a few minutes of your life of faith, you might have inſtructed me while you are cloathing others;
- 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XVII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 349:
- His happiness in knowing himself to have been so long the beloved of such a heart, must have been great enough to warrant any strength of language in which he could cloathe it to her or to himself; […]