smote

English

Alternative forms

• smot (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: smōt, IPA^(key): /sməʊt/
• (General American) enPR: smōt, IPA^(key): /smoʊt/

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• Rhymes: -əʊt

Verb

smote

1. simple past of smite
2. (now colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of smite
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 132:

     As thy eye beames, when their freſh rayſe haue ſmot.

   • 1828, Laure Junot duchesse d'Abrantès, Memoirs of the Duchess d'Abrantés‎^[1], volume 1, page 197:

     "We should have smote him," continued the ex-president of the Directory, still fretful from his misfortune; […]

   • 1915, C.J. Dennis, The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, published 1916, page 13:

     The world 'as got me snouted jist a treat; Crool Forchin's dirty left 'as smote me soul.

   • 2006 January 4, Penn Jillette, Michael Goudeau, 19:01 from the start, in Penn Radio‎^[2], number 2:

     So that's the story- God did not smote us for that story. We finished the whole thing. Penn Jillette in Las Vegas with Michale Goudeau- we'll be back, we'll take some phone calls. God hath not smote my ass!

   • 2008 February 5, Loren D. Estleman, Port Hazard: A Page Murdock Novel‎^[3], →ISBN, page 261:

     "God has use for Satan, or He would have smote him centuries ago. In any case, Captain Dan is nothing without Barbary. He will shrivel and drift before the first clean draught that blows unhampered across the ruins.”

3. simple past of smight

Anagrams

• -stome, Motes, Tomes, mesto, moste, motes, o-stem, tomes

Middle English

Adjective

smote

1. Alternative form of smothe

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Etymology

From Middle English smote, past participle of smiten (“to deal a blow, strike, beat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /smɔːt/

Noun

smote

1. A heavy stroke.
   • 1927, “PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 133, line 19:

     A pipere vel bak lik own in a smote,

     The piper fell back like one well smitten,

Related terms

• smolke (“slight stroke”)

References

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 133