Lexicographical Neighbors of Defaste
Literary usage of Defaste
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... so in middle iustly plaste, As it at no time will permit hir beautie be defaste.
Hir Mouth so small, hir Teeth so white as any Whale his bone, ..."
2. Mirror for magistrates: in five parts by William Baldwin, Richard Niccols, John Higgins (1815)
"... to my kingly crowne did reare Me quickely then: I at the fyrst, by might
defaste my foes in ..."
3. The History of English Poetry: From the Close of the Eleventh Century to the by Thomas Warton (1840)
"... And small fowles flocking in theyr song did rewe The winters wrath, wherewith
eche thinge defaste ..."
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