Talk:ablest

RFV discussion: April–May 2016

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ablest

Archaic second-person form, i.e. "thou ablest" = "you able" (verb). I can only see scannos in Google Books. Equinox ◑ 00:05, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

Century says Shakespeare, Donne, Chapman, and Bishops Latimer and Bale used the verb able. Plays, poetry, sermons and speeches could contain something.

OTOH neither Century nor OED use this form in any of their citations. DCDuring TALK 02:04, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

I found one, but only one:

• 1857 (1616?), The Odyssey, translated by G. Chapman, book 12, starting on line 410:

  'Cruel Ulysses! Since thy nerves abound / In strength, the more spent, and no toils confound / Thy able limbs, as all beat out of steel, / Thou ablest us too, as unapt to feel / The teeth of Labour[.]'

- -sche (discuss) 05:22, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

RFV-failed. An IP found the same one citation, with different particulars. - -sche (discuss) 04:13, 21 May 2016 (UTC)