neighboreth

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neighboureth

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neighboreth

(archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative of neighbor
- 1612, Michael Drayton, “The eighteenth Song”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes; I. Browne; I. Helme; I. Busbie, published 1613, →OCLC, page 300:
  Of Villages ſhee holds as husbandly a port, / As any Britiſh Ile that neighboreth Neptunes Court.
- 1615, George Sandys, “The Third Booke”, in The Relation of a Iourney Begun An: Dom: 1610. […], London: […] [Richard Field] for W. Barrett, →OCLC, page 163:
  The farre end of this Chapell, called the Chapell of S. Iohn (and of the Anointing, by reaſon of the ſtone which it neighboreth) is confined with the foote of Caluary, where on the left ſide of the Altar there is a cleft in the rocke: […]
- 1621, T[homas] L[odge], transl., A Learned Summary upon the Famous Poeme of William of Saluste Lord of Bartas. Wherin Are Discovered All the Excellent Secretts in Metaphysicall Physicall, Morall, and Historicall Knowledge. […], London: […] Iohn Grismand […], page 68:
  Africus is tempeſtuous and flegmatike, and becauſe it neighboreth the South, ſometimes it bringeth Raines, Thunders and Sickneſſes.
- 1845 (this edition), Torquato Tasso, translated by Edward Fairfax, Godrey of Bulloigne; or The Recovery of Jerusalem: Done into English Heroical Verse, from the Italian of Tasso, volume I, first American from the seventh London edition, reprinted from the original folio of 1600, New York, N.Y.: Wiley & Putnam, […], page 18:
  Those of Mount Seir, that neighboreth by east / The holy city, faithful folk each one, / Down from the hill descended most and least, / And to the Christian Duke by heaps they gone, / And welcome him and his, with joy and feast, / On him they smile, on him they gaze alone, / And were his guides, as faithful, from that day, / As Hesperus, that leads the sun his way.
- 1932, The Salesianum, page 28:
  “This, who most neighboreth me upon the right, brother and master was to me, and he was Albert of Cologne, I Thomas of Aquino.”
- 1958, Kathryn Sullivan, God’s Word & Work, Collegeville, Minn.: The Liturgical Press, page 5:
  St. Bernard identifies our first parents for the pilgrim-poet in these lines: He who neighboreth [Mary] upon the left is that father because of whose audacious tasting the human race has tasted such bitterness.
- 1963, Alexander Maclaren Witherspoon, Frank J. Warnke, editors, Seventeenth-Century Prose and Poetry, 2nd edition, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., page 212:
  For it is certain Cadmus was the first that (from Phœnicia, a country that neighboreth Judea) brought the use of letters into Greece.