vext

English

Verb

vext

1. (archaic) simple past and past participle of vex
   • 1859, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Coming of Arthur”, in Idylls of the King:

     What happiness to reign a lonely king,
     Vext — O ye stars that shudder over me,
     O earth that soundest hollow under me,
     Vext with waste dreams?

   • 1859, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Coming of Arthur”, in Idylls of the King:

     And that same night, the night of the new year,
     By reason of the bitterness and grief
     That vext his mother, all before his time
     Was Arthur born [...]

   • 1859, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Holy Grail”, in Idylls of the King:

     [...] and thence
     Taking my war-horse from the holy man,
     Glad that no phantom vext me more, return'd
     To whence I came, the gate of Arthur's wars.