sithe
English
Etymology 1
The spelling with /sc-/ was influenced by unrelated Latin word scissor (“cutter”), and scindere (“to split”).
Noun
sithe (plural sithes)
- Obsolete form of scythe.
- 1669, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Samuel Simmons, Book X:
- […] and, whatever thing the sithe of time mows down, devour unspared.
- 1669, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Samuel Simmons, Book X:
Verb
sithe (third-person singular simple present sithes, present participle sithing, simple past and past participle sithed)
- Obsolete form of scythe.
Noun
sithe (plural sithes)
- Alternative spelling of sith
- c. 1324, Bevis of Hampton, TEAMS Middle English Texts, lines 905–906:
- The king thar-of was glad and blithe / And thankede him ful mani a sithe,
- c. 1450, “Thomas of India”, in The Towneley Plays, Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, line 85:
- The holy gost before vs glad / full softly on his sithe;
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Verb
sithe (third-person singular simple present sithes, present participle sithing, simple past and past participle sithed)
Etymology 3
Regional pronunciation of sigh.
Verb
sithe (third-person singular simple present sithes, present participle sithing, simple past and past participle sithed)
- (dialectal, dated) To sigh.
- c1475, The Macro Plays, Mankindː
- I may both sithe and sob; this is a piteous remembrance
- c1475, The Macro Plays, Mankindː
Noun
sithe (plural sithes)
- (obsolete) A sigh.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
References
- “sī̆then” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sithe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Etymology 4
Clipping of sithen.
Conjunction
sithe
- Alternative spelling of sith (“since”)
- 1561, Norton, Thomas; Sackville, Thomas, Gorboduc; or, Ferrex and Porrex, Smith, Lucy Toulmin, editor, Heilbronn, published 1883, Act 1, Scene 2, page 13:
- Wherefore (O kyng) I speake as one for all, / Sithe all as one do beare you egall faith:
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