10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RATHEST»
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English: past and present, 5 lectures
123 The comparative ' rather ' stands alone, having dropped on either side its
positive 'rathe,' and superlative ' rathest.' ' Rathe,' having the sense of early,
though a graceful word, and not fallen quite out of popular remembrance,
inasmuch as ...
Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.), 1859
2
On the English Language: Past and Present
RATHE, RATHER, RATHEST. 127 time of Holland ; while ' foolhappy' is in
Spenser. ' Exhort' remains ; but ' dehort,' a word whose place neither dissuade
nor any other exactly supplies, has escaped us. We have ' twilight,' but ' twibill' (=
bi- ...
Richard Chenevix Trench, 1858
3
English, Past and Present
It is a real loss that the comparative ' rather ' should now stand alone, having
dropped alike the positive, 'rathe,' and the superlative, 'rathest'. 'Rathe,' or early,
though a graceful word, and not fallen quite out of popular remembrance, being ...
Richard Chenevix Trench, 1871
4
Piers Plowman: Concordance
C. 6.290 Thow were such as thow sayst; y sholde rather s[t]erue: C. 6.392 And
hoso repente[th] rathest sholde aryse aftur C. 7.209 That is to sey sothly 3e
sholde rather deye C. 8.44 He worth rather reseyued and reuerentloker s[e]tte: C.
8.125 ...
5
Will's Visions of Piers Plowman, Do-well, Do-better and ...
... his leue is to ryse And when he is rysen rometh out and 0^1 wel aspyeth
Where he may rathest haue a repaest or a ronde of bacomi, Suluer or sode mete
and sum tyme bothe, Loef oper halfloef other a lompe of chese And ca[ry]eth hit
hoem ...
William Langland, George Harrison Russell, George Kane, 1997
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GÉpea pteróenta. Or, The diversions of Purley. To which is ...
And netheles there is no man In all this worlde so wise, that can Of loue temper
the measure : But as it falleth in auenture. For witte ne strength maie not helpe
And whiche els wolde him yelpe, Is RATHEST throwen under foote." Gower, lib.
John Horne Tooke, Richard Taylor, 1829
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An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: ...
He means rathest (as I think) George now "Lord Hume. (for he is Lord ever after
this) and Sir David of Wedder'burn with his brothers/F &c. Hist. Doug. p. '248. .
RAIVEL, s. A rail, as the mind of a stair, of a wooden bridge, Szc. S. The tops of a
...
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An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
See Repute. RATH,early, RATHER,sooner. (E.) Rather, sooner, earlier, is the
comp. formof rath,soon, now obsolete.We alsofind rathest, soonest. ME. rath,
early, ready, quick, swift, rathe, adv., soon;comp. rather ; superl. rathest, soonest.
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Epea Pteroenta, Or, the Diversions of Purley
1, " But lesynges with her flatterye " With fraude couered under a pytous face "
Accept be nowe rathest unto grace." Blacke Knyght. Fol. 289. pag. 1. col. 2. <{
That fhal not nowe be tolde for me " For it no nede is redily " Folke can lynge it bet
...
And netheles there is no man " In all this worldc so wise, that can « Of lone
temper the measure : " But as it falleth in auenture. " For witte ne strength maie
not helpc " And whiche els wolde him yelpe, " Is rathest throwen under foote."
Gowcr, lib.
