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Definition of Smote
1. smite [v] - See also: smite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smote
Literary usage of Smote
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, William Caxton (1903)
"CHAPTER XVII How Sir Galahad met with Sir Launcelot and Sir Per rivals, and smote
them down, and departed from them. So when Sir Galahad was departed from ..."
2. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
"Vex the Midianites, ami smite them: 32: 4. the country which the Lord smote 33: 4.
which the Lord hud smitten 35:16. And if he smite him with an ..."
3. Israel in Egypt: Sacred Oratorio by George Frideric Handel, Georg Friedrich Händel, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Horace Wadham Nicholl (1900)
"... strength He smote all the firstborn of E - gypt, the chief Él strength, Ï в
ief of r . ! . I л chief of afl their strength, of all their strength, ..."
4. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas Hobbes (1844)
"He smote was with a spear into the brain ; Antilochus the man that smote him was.
... He was unblest To be the first that came in Ajax's way, Who smote him ..."
5. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"For brave Agenor saw, and through the ribs (Shown bare beside his buckler, as he
stoop'd) smote him with brass-spiked spear, and loosed his limbs. ..."