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refuseth
vb. (en-archaic third-person singular of: refuse)
Usage examples of "refuseth".
Yet the wild winds cherish the sacred seed, The fire refuseth to consume.
This was, of course, the old English “peine forte et dure” for those who, in cases of petty treason or of felony, will not “put themselves upon the country,” or, as Coke has it, “when the offender standeth mute, and refuseth to be tryed by the common law of the land.