- past tense form of smite.
smit
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of smit
Old English smitte a spot, and smittian to smear; related to Old High German smiz, whence Middle High German smitz
Example Sentences
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As Mr. Fuseli states magniloquently, after his manner, 'he was smit with the love of classic lore, and desired to trace, on dubious vestiges, the haunts of ancient genius and learning.'
From Art in England Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook
I declare, said my uncle Toby, smit with pity, I know of none; unless it be the pleasure which it has pleased God—— A fiddlestick! quoth she.
From The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
Earl March look'd on his dying child, And smit with grief to view her— The youth, he cried, whom I exiled Shall be restored to woo her.
From The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by Francis Turner Palgrave
“Then when you’ve smit your rector on one cheek you quote the Bible to make him think he ought to turn his overcoat also.”
From Hepsey Burke by Frank N. (Frank Noyes) Westcott
Ah for the eyes that have smit me with madness!
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell
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