Lexicographical Neighbors of Smitting
Literary usage of Smitting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Christian Quaker, and His Divine Testimony Stated and Vindicated by William Penn, George Whitehead (1824)
"... it in thus smitting the brightness of his own glory, &c. than in the eternal
damnation of men and devils, &c. If I should conclude this both blasphemous ..."
2. Lincolnshire Notes and Queries: A Quarterly Journal...devoted to the by A R (Arthur Roland) Maddison, W O. Massingberd, E. Mansel Sympson (1893)
"smitting, the expressive word used in Lincolnshire for infectious disease."
The Union Review, 1865, Vol. III., p. 266. SPURRING.—July 22, 1705. ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"The red haematite used for marking or smitting sheep. Formerly obtained chiefly
from the Wasdale Screes. Called also Ruddle. The smit marked upon the sheep ..."
4. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain), Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright, William Crooke (1904)
"Others simply spit on the carcase, giving as a reason that it is done to prevent
it " smitting" (ie, infecting) them. (Almost every one on perceiving a bad ..."
5. History of English Nonconformity from Wiclif to the Close of the Nineteenth by Henry William Clark (1911)
"Puritanism had rebounded over and over again from the earth to which it had been
smitten ; but there comes a time, if the smitting hand remains unweakened, ..."
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