Crossword clues for brooked
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brook \Brook\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brooked; p. pr. & vb. n. Brooking.] [OE. broken, bruken, to use, enjoy, digest, AS. br?can; akin to D. gebruiken to use, OHG. pr?hhan, G. brauchen, gebrauchen, Icel. br?ka, Goth. br?kjan, and L. frui, to enjoy. Cf. Fruit, Broker.]
To use; to enjoy. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.-
To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young men can not brook restraint.
--Spenser.Shall we, who could not brook one lord, Crouch to the wicked ten?
--Macaulay. To deserve; to earn. [Obs.]
--Sir J. Hawkins.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: brook)
Usage examples of "brooked".
The soldiers brooked no delay, nor hesitated to use musket butt or bayonet to urge on the tardy, as if the exiles were no more than cattle driven to slaughter.
It was not the sort of talk that a newly appointed maid of honour found at all entertaining, but Zeralenn brooked no recalcitrance, and Eliste found herself trapped, banished to the study for hours on end with no companion but the Count vo Bourray's ossified old Mirror of Courtiers.
The deployment was carried out with a detached, businesslike efficiency that brooked no denial.
I'll have the nurse look in on her later' 'I'm staying here,' the lightkeeper responded sharply in tones that brooked no argument.
Just after noon that day, February 8, he received an order that brooked no denial: to report immediately to the CENTAF headquarters in Riyadh.
She turned back to the two kings, fists on hips, and, in a tone that brooked no foolishness, demanded, 'Now tell me, why are you standing out here hacking at one another like Finn mac Cumhaill and Usnach Blue Shield?