overtaketh
English
Verb
overtaketh
- (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overtake
- a. 1598, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, 1914 Oxford ed. edition:
- He makes sweet music with th' enamell'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage; And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to the wild ocean.
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