to seest
3
9.9
- verb
- Archaic
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- Seest thou this letter?
- thou seest
Examples
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For all the land which thou seest... to thee will I give it and to thy seed forever.
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In me, thou seest the glowing of such fire.
Blog text (29) -
This is dear mercy and thou seest it not.
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"Watch what thou seest and lightly bring me word
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Seest thou here, this is the mouth o' the cell.
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"Those thou seest there," answered his master, "with the long arms, and some have them nearly two leagues long."
Blog text (23) -
In me, thou seest the twilight of such day.
Blog text (29) -
It is too rash, too unadyvised, too sudden to like the lightning that thou seest to be.
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The fringed curtains of thine eye advance and say, say what thou seest yond.
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Seest thou this letter?
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word seest is an old form of see with the ending -st that was used with 'thou' in older English. So seest simply means 'you see' and you will find it in poems and old books.