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Definition of Foughten
1. exhausted especially from fighting [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foughten
Literary usage of Foughten
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, Alfred William Pollard, William Caxton (1903)
"CHAPTER LXXXVIII How Sir Palomides kept his day to have foughten, but Sir Tristram
might not come; and other things. BUT in no wise there was no knight ..."
2. La Mort D'Arthure: The History of King Arthur and of the Knights of the by Thomas Malory (1866)
"How that sir Palomides kept bis day for to have foughten, but sir Tristram might
not come, and of other matters. IUT in no wise there was no knight about ..."
3. The Boy's King Arthur: Being Sir Thomas Malory's History of King Arthur and by Sidney Lanier, Thomas Malory (1880)
"... TO HAVE foughten, BUT SIR TRISTRAM MIGHT NOT COME. THEN when the fifteenth
day was come, Sir Pala- mides came to the well with four knights with him of ..."
4. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society by Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) (1877)
"On the 2d July, 1645, the battle of Alford was foughten ... The 15th of August,
1645, the battell of Kilsyth, foughten ..."
5. An English Grammar: Methodical, Analytical, and Historical. With a Treatise by Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner (1874)
"The participle foughten, obsolete in writing is in use dialectically, for instance,
in Craven (alongside of fönen]i-, ..."
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