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mayest

American  
[mey-ist] / ˈmeɪ ɪst /
Also mayst

verb

Archaic.
  1. 2nd person singular present indicative of may.


mayest British  
/ ˈmeɪɪst /

verb

  1. a variant of mayst

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Mayest thou be blessed, O thou our fairest   Beloved, once to fortune dear, If still for Ireland's Feinne thou carest,   See how they wail thine absence here.

From Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses by Campbell, John Douglas Sutherland

Mayest thou grow on the paths of the birds.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Duncker, Max

Mayest thou win a wife who is but a faint reflection of Thora.

From Saga of Halfred the Sigskald A Northern Tale of the Tenth Century by Dahn, Felix

Father Eternal, thine is to decree; Mine, both in Heaven and Earth, to do thy will Supreme; that thou in me, thy Son beloved, Mayest ever rest well pleased.

From Paradise Lost by Milton, John

Mayest thou my friend and benefactor overcome in every hardship. 

From Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards by Evans, Evan

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