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Kythe

Kythe \Kythe\, v. t. To come into view; to appear. [Scot.]

It kythes bright . . . because all is dark around it.
--Sir W. Scott.

Kythe

Kythe \Kythe\, Kithe \Kithe\ (k[imac][th]), v. t. [imp. Kydde, Kidde (k[i^]d"de); p. p. Kythed, Kid; p. pr. & vb. n. Kything.] [OE. kythen, kithen, cu[eth]en, to make known, AS. c[=y][eth]an, fr. c[=u][eth] known. [root]45. See Uncouth, Can to be able, and cf. Kith.] To make known; to manifest; to show; to declare. [Obs. or Scot.]

For gentle hearte kytheth gentilesse.
--Chaucer.

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kythe

vb. 1 To make known in words; to announce, proclaim, declare, tell. 2 To make known by action, appearance; to manifest, show, prove, demonstrate, indicate. 3 (alternative form of kithe English)

Usage examples of "kythe".

The ayr quha wad kythe a bastard and carena, The mayd quha wad tyne her man and her bairn, Lift the neck, and enter, and fearna.

Over them loomed Mount Kythes, its jagged peak thrusting above the tree line like an elbow from a worn green sleeve.

The movement assumed shape and form, and images were kythed to her mind’s eye, visual projections superimposed swiftly one over the other.

He kythed at last, “As though once weren’t enough, when you reached out for Mr.

Everywhere Meg kythed she seemed to meet a projection of an Echthros-Mr.

Senex kythed calmly, "Perhaps you don't want to fill it strongly enough.

Proginoskes kythed so strongly that she was pulled back into painful awareness.

Nevertheless, her mind registered all that she saw and it was there, stored, available to the kything of the cherubim.

She saw with a flash of intuition that her kything was like a small child’s trying to pick out a melody on the piano with one finger, as against the harmony of a full orchestra, like the cherubic language.

The cherubim moved lightly, swiftly within her, and his kything moved through and beyond her senses to an awareness she had never known before.

She became one with the kything, Deepened creatures moving in the intricate pattern of song, of the loveliness of rhythm, of joy.

Muddied thoughts which could hardly qualify as kything moved about her like sluggish water, and yet she understood that Mr.

He was not kything in words now, but in great waves of courage, of strength, flowing over and through her.

The force with which she had been thrown was so fierce that her kything was completely blacked out.

A faint twin-gling came from them, but now he was kything, his young greenery moving rhythmically, his delicate new needles and leaves and blades shimmering with the rhythm of Senex, of the singing farae, of Yadah.