paceth

English

Verb

paceth

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of pace
   • 1818, Lucy Aikin, Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth‎^[1]:

     Queen Elizabeth to the king of Scots:/ "When the first blast of a strange, unused, and seld heard of sound had pierced my ears, I supposed that flying fame, who with swift quills oft paceth with the worst, had brought report of some untruth, but when too too many records in your open parliament were witnesses of such pronounced words, not more to my disgrace than to your dishonor, who did forget that (above all other regard) a prince's word ought utter nought of any, much less of a king, than such as to which truth might say Amen: But you, neglecting all care of yourself, what danger of reproach, besides somewhat else, might light upon you, have chosen so unseemly a theme to charge your only careful friend withal, of such matter as (were you not amazed in all senses) could not have been expected at your hands; of such imagined untruths as were never thought of in our time; and do wonder what evil spirits have possessed you, to set forth so infamous devices void of any show of truth.

   • 1893, William Watson, The Poems of William Watson‎^[2]:

     The master paceth up and down his halls, And in the empty hours Can hear the tottering of his towers And tremor of their bases underground.

   • 1913, Virna Sheard, The Miracle and Other Poems‎^[3]:

     Through forest aisles while the wind chanteth low-- In God's cathedral where the great trees grow, Now all day long he paceth to and fro.

   • 1913, William Morris, The Story of the Glittering Plain‎^[4]:

     Then that small voice made a word and said: "Why paceth the fool up and down our hall, doing nothing, even as the Ravens flap croaking about the crags, abiding the war-mote and the clash of the fallow blades?"

Anagrams

• hep cat, hep-cat, hepcat