2. Verb. (archaic or poetic) (past of cross) ¹
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Definition of Crost
1. cross [v] - See also: cross
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crost
Literary usage of Crost
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"... Be crost ere met. B. and L'l. Tico Ь'и'Ле К., iii, 1. This is the emendation
of Mr. ... crost ..."
2. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers (1847)
"... And though for her sake I'm crost, I'll fly where I never did : And knew she
would make my trouble Though my best hopes I have lost, Ten times more than ..."
3. The Lusiad: Or, The Discovery of India: an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle (1809)
"Yet when the Lybian nations crost the main, And spread their thousands o'er the
fields of Spain, ..."
4. Diary of Iohn Evelyn, Esq., F.R.S.: To which are Added a Selection from His by John Evelyn (1906)
"... 'Till rugged billows and a dang'rous coast My vent'rous bark and rash attempt
had crost. I turn'd my prow, and the discov'ry made, But was too weak, ..."
5. The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's by John Lawson Stoddard (1910)
"... An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay! THE MAN WHO
WOULD BE KING " Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found ..."
6. Ioannis Wiclif De compositione hominis: for the first time edited by Rudolf Beer by John Wycliffe, Rudolf Beer (1884)
"Sec., JW STANDEE,WICK, Esq., GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON, EG Cheques to be crost, '
London and County Bank.' Fourth Report of the Executive Committee, for. ..."
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