aidedst

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aidedst

  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple past indicative of aid
    • 1809, James Mason, “Ninus, a Tragedy”, in Literary Miscellanies, volume II, London: [] J. M‘Creery, [], for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, []; and J. Ridgway, [], act IV, scene II, page 400:
      And the poor wretch, thou aidedst in his crimes, / Who there lies dead, give him a burial.
    • [1850], Jacob Merlo Horstius (unknown translator), The Paradise of the Christian Soul, Delightful for Its Choicest Pleasures of Piety of Every Kind, London: Burns & Lambert, [], page 453:
      [] Jesus who mercifully aidedst all the sick, []
    • [1856], “Augustine, Bishop of Hippo in the Fourth Century”, in Biographical Sketches of Eminent Christians, fifth series, London: The Religious Tract Society;  [], page 9:
      These things, O God, I meditated on, and thou aidedst me.
    • 1865, Homer, translated by J[oseph] Henry Dart, The Iliad of Homer, in English Hexameter Verse, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 218:
      Aid me, now, as of old, thou aidedst my valorous father; []
    • 1867, Homer, translated by James Inglis Cochrane, Homer’s Iliad. Translated into English Hexameters, Edinburgh: [], page 77:
      Oh, if aforetime ever my sire or myself thou, propitious, / Aidedst in furious fight, once more, O Pallas, befriend me; []
    • 1869, Thomé de Jesu (unknown translator), The Sufferings of Jesus, part I (Our Lord’s Sufferings from the Hour of His Conception to the Night of His Betrayal), [] James Parker & Co., Oxford, and [], London; Rivingtons, [], London, [], Oxford, and [], Cambridge, page 360:
      Thou aidedst my poor and faulty aspirations after virtue.
    • 1875, Albert Reville, “Athanase Josué Coquerel. In Memoriam.”, in The Theological Review: A Journal of Religious Thought and Life, volume XII, London: Williams & Norgate, [], And [], Edinburgh. Manchester: Johnson & Rawson, [], page 514:
      One of those whom thou honouredst with thy friendship, whom thou aidedst with thy counsels, whom more than once thou defendedst against intolerance and calumny, wishes to lay upon thy grave his modest wreath, In memoriam tui; []