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Definition of Aslaked
1. aslake [v] - See also: aslake
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aslaked
Literary usage of Aslaked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old English Plays: Being a Selection from the Early Dramatic Writers by Charles Wentworth Dilke (1814)
"Would you have his love either by absence or sickness aslaked * ? Would you that
Cynthia should mistrust him, or be jealous of him without colour? Tel. ..."
2. The Complete Works of John Lyly by John Lyly (1902)
"902] " Till at the last aslaked was his mood "' (Dilke). Again Euph. i. 307 1.
5, note. P. 31, 14. my solitarie life, almost these ..."
3. The Dramatic Works of John Lilly, (the Euphuist.) by John Lyly (1858)
"The term is used in Chaucer's " Knight's Tale "— " Till at the last aslaked was
his mood." Page 21,1. 31. Secure.—The word occurs in "The complaint of the ..."
4. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (1903)
"And on hir bare knees adoun they falle, And wolde have kist his feet ther-as he
stood, 1759 Til at the laste aslaked was his mood; ..."
5. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"And on hir bare knees adoun they falle, And wold have kist his feet ther as he
stood, Till at the last, aslaked was his mood ..."
6. The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, Excluding Shakespeare by William Allan Neilson (1911)
"Would you have his love either by abc«nce or sickness aslaked ? ' Would you that
Cynthia should mistrust him, or be jealous [ы "1 liim without colour ? ..."
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