tryst
noun
an appointment to meet at a certain time and place, especially one made somewhat secretly by lovers.
trysted
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past participleof tryst.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof tryst.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
trystnounan appointment to meet at a certain time and place, especially one made somewhat secretly by lovers.
Example Sentences
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The Sun, owned by Rupert Murdoch, who also owns the Sunday Times, edited by Bordes' former beau Neil, polled British national editors to find out if they too had trysted with Bordes.
From Time Magazine Archive
As we live, there are Donald and Ian with the boat at the rocks! and we now remember with a shudder that we trysted them for this morning to convey us across to the Moors!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
Eccentric hunters trysted under Hendry’s roof; the Six-Foot Club, for instance.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
I was wonderfully trysted there; but not so as at the other.
From Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by John Howie
O Allison Gross, that lives in yon tow’r, The ugliest witch i’ the north country, Has trysted me ae day up till her bow’r, An’ monny fair speech she made to me.
From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Frank Sidgwick
