- 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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But I confess, dear mother, openly, However proud my haughty spirit swell, When I within thy blessed presence dwell, Oft am I smit with shy humility.
From Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich
Ah for the eyes that have smit me with madness!
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert
From nature’s birth, hence, wisdom has been smit With sweet recess, and languish’d for the shade.
From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward
The woods that deck yon' fading waste, That every wanton gale embrac'd, Ere summer yet made haste to fly; How smit with frost the pride of June!
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Freneau, Philip
“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 Westcott, Frank N. (Frank Noyes)
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