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smiting
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Word definitions for smiting in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act of one who smites. vb. (present participle of smite English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Smite \Smite\ (sm[imac]t), v. t. [imp. Smote (sm[=o]t), rarely Smit (sm[i^]t); p. p. Smitten (sm[i^]t"t'n), rarely Smit , or Smote ; p. pr. & vb. n. Smiting (sm[imac]t"[i^]ng).] [AS. sm[=i]tan to smite, to soil, pollute; akin to OFries. sm[=i]ta to ...
Usage examples of smiting.
Men shouted and ran in like fear, wildly, running to nowhere, fleeing the great smiting in the sky.
Then Martimor rushed upon the churls, shouting for joy, and there was a great medley of breaking chairs and tables and cursing and smiting, and with his sword he gave horrible strokes.
Then they stepped together and fought freshly, smiting and thrusting, ramping and reeling, panting, snorting, and scattering blood, for the space of two hours.
Then, with the maul, after repeatedly smiting the upper end of this iron rod, he placed the blunted needle endwise on the top of it, and less strongly hammered that, several times, the mate still holding the rod as before.
Troy drew back from the ships, and Aias and the other unwounded Greek princes leaped among them, smiting with sword and spear.
Sarpedon the Trojans rallied under Hector, and the fight swayed this way and that, and there was such a noise of spears and swords smiting shields and helmets as when many woodcutters fell trees in a glen of the hills.
So they ran swiftly to their huts, and armed themselves, and Aias fell smiting and slaying upon the Trojans, but Achilles slew five of the bodyguard of Penthesilea.
And up and down among them he went, smiting blindly till the dawn came, and, lo!
Oh, he could hurl blasts of burning or smiting force from it, and use it to spit out mists or light or make him fly .
Hall-Sun bade them, when they knew that they would be questioned with torments, and smiting themselves each with a little sharp knife, so went their ways to the Gods.
They came on in very good order, never breaking their ranks, but swift withal, smiting and pushing before them, and so brake through the array of the Goth-folk, and drave them this way and that way down the slopes.
Romans gathered about them, cutting them off from all succour and aid, but went on smiting till they were felled with many strokes.
Laeral had been busy training her apprentice, Blaskyn, to master the smiting spells that made a sorcerer a power to be reckoned with.
She could be thy warrior-scourge of Hell, smiting all who stand against tbee, loving thee as fiercely and hungrily as she now slays.
On its heels came the fury of the blast, smiting his ears like spell-thunder.