2. Adverb. (obsolete) Quickly. ¹
3. Adverb. (poetic) Early in the morning. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rathe
1. appearing or ripening early [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rathe
Literary usage of Rathe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Flushed with the furnishing fulness of fever that reddens with radiance of rathe
recreation, Gaunt as the ghastliest of glimpses that gleam through the ..."
2. The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1858)
"can meet with at present are three or four, which I appear to have overlooked;
so that I may affirm, rathe'r paradoxically, that I have such of her letters ..."
3. Documents Illustrative of the History of Scotland from the Death of King by Joseph Stevenson (1870)
"... Earl of Mar to King Edward, asking credence for Andrew de rathe.1 ... salutem,
et se totum ad rathe, ..."
4. A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament: Including the Biblical by Wilhelm Gesenius, Edward Robinson (1844)
"But this Greek word itself seems rathe/ of Semitic origin, and to come from the
verb Via to plait v 7^ f. plur. ..."
5. Therapeutics, Materia Medica, and Pharmacy: Including the Special by Samuel Otway Lewis Potter (1909)
"... its therapeutic value to its reducing power rathe than to the sulphur in its
composition. It is of no service in erysipelas, and is not a parasiticide; ..."
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