vext

English

Verb

vext

  1. (archaic) simple past and past participle of vex
    • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 166:
      She was vext and angry, God wot:
      "What hast thou here in the grove to do?
      Little business, I trow, thou hast got."
    • 1859, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Coming of Arthur”, in Idylls of the King:
      What happiness to reign a lonely king,
      Vext — O ye stars that shudder over me,
      O earth that soundest hollow under me,
      Vext with waste dreams?
    • 1859, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Coming of Arthur”, in Idylls of the King:
      And that same night, the night of the new year,
      By reason of the bitterness and grief
      That vext his mother, all before his time
      Was Arthur born [...]
    • 1859, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Holy Grail”, in Idylls of the King:
      [...] and thence
      Taking my war-horse from the holy man,
      Glad that no phantom vext me more, return'd
      To whence I came, the gate of Arthur's wars.
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