discoveredst

English

Verb

discoveredst

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple past indicative of discover
   • (Can we date this quote?), The Holy Mass, in Latin and English, page 208:

     In thoſe days: Jeremy ſaid: Lord, thou haſt ſhewed it me, and I know it: then thou diſcoveredſt to me their deſigns.

   • 1741, John Martyn, Pub. Virgilii Maronis Georgicorum Libri Quatuor. The Georgicks of Virgil, with an English Translation and Notes., London: […] for the Editor, by Richard Reily, […], page 3:

     […] and thou, O Minerva, who diſcoveredſt the olive: […]

   • 1890, Matteo Bandello, translated by John Payne, The Novels of Matteo Bandello Bishop of Agen Now First Done into English Prose and Verse, volume one, London: […] the Villon Society […], page 323:

     Of one thing I will e’en rebuke thee, so thou mayst never more fall into a like error, and that is that thou discoveredst not to me thy love, knowing that I was enamoured of her and knew nothing of thy passion; […]

   • 1911, Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Thomas Common, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 311:

     “The penitent in spirit,” said the old man, “it was him—I represented; thou thyself once devisedst this expression— / —The poet and magician who at last turneth his spirit against himself, the transformed one who freezeth to death by his bad science and conscience. And just acknowledge it: it was long, O Zarathustra, before thou discoveredst my trick and lie! Thou believedst in my distress when thou heldest my head with both thy hands,— / —I heard thee lament ‘we have loved him too little, loved him too little!’ Because I so far deceived thee, my wickedness rejoiced in me.”