thoughten

thoughten

English

Etymology

From thought +‎ -en (past participle ending).

Verb

thoughten

1. (nonstandard) past participle of think.

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• thoghten, þoghten, þoughten, þoȝten, þouȝten

Etymology

thought +‎ -en (verbal plural suffix).

Verb

thoughten

1. plural past of thinken.
   • c. 1450, Prose Merlin

     And in the menewhile that thei thoughten upon these thinges that thei hadde seyn, the squyer com the thridde tyme and smote his lorde sorer than he hadde don before.

   • c. 1500, The Turke and Sir Gawain

     All the giants thoughten then

     To have strucke out Sir Gawaines braine.

   • 1589, George Peele, An Eclogue Gratulatory

     And for their mistress, thoughten the two swains,

     They moughten never take too mickle pains;