2. Verb. (obsolete form of host) ¹
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Definition of Hoast
1. to cough [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: cough
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoast
Literary usage of Hoast
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. La Mort D'Arthure: The History of King Arthur and of the Knights of the by Thomas Malory (1866)
"This was the cause of the northern hoast that they were reared for the despite
and rebuke that the six kings had at ..."
2. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"Provoking, wi' hoast-provoking smeek, The Vision. D. 1.3. Provost [the chief
magistrate of a royal burgh]. Provost John is still deaf to the church's relief ..."
3. The Handy Pocket Dictionary of the English Language by Thomas Joseph Carey (1892)
"... rn (ed, ing), to spring suddenly ; to hoast. ... Brag, rn (ged, ging), to
hoast; to swagger. — n. a hoast, the thing ..."
4. A Commentary on the New Testament by Lucius Robinson Paige (1867)
"... as a fool receive me, that I may hoast myself a little. 17 That which I speak,
I speak it not after the Lord, but as it lows, the idea manifestly is, ..."
5. Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Or, Many Things in Few Words by Charles Caleb Colton (1824)
"... ana their groans hut wind : thus they sacrificed one, a martyr to his clemency,
and they reward another, who lives to hoast of his murders. CCCXXXVI. ..."
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