Crossword clues for smiting
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 smite, LG. smiten, D. smijten, G. schmeissen, OHG. sm[=i]zan to smear, stroke, OSw. & dial. Sw. smita to smite, Dan. smide to throw, Goth. bismeitan, to anoint, besmear; cf. Skr. m[=e]d to be fat. The original sense seems to have been, to daub on, to smear. Cf. Smut.]
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To strike; to inflict a blow upon with the hand, or with any instrument held in the hand, or with a missile thrown by the hand; as, to smite with the fist, with a rod, sword, spear, or stone.
Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
--Matt. v. 39.And David . . . took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead.
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To cause to strike; to use as an instrument in striking or hurling.
Prophesy, and smite thine hands together.
--Ezek. xxi. 14.Saul . . . smote the javelin into the wall.
--1 Sam. xix. 10. To destroy the life of by beating, or by weapons of any kind; to slay by a blow; to kill; as, to smite one with the sword, or with an arrow or other instrument.
To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
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To blast; to destroy the life or vigor of, as by a stroke or by some visitation.
The flax and the barly was smitten.
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To afflict; to chasten; to punish.
Let us not mistake God's goodness, nor imagine, because he smites us, that we are forsaken by him.
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To strike or affect with passion, as love or fear.
The charms that smite the simple heart.
--Pope.Smit with the love of sister arts we came.
--Pope.To smite off, to cut off.
To smite out, to knock out, as a tooth.
--Exod. xxi. 27.To smite with the tongue, to reproach or upbraid; to revile. [Obs.]
--Jer. xviii. 1
Wiktionary
n. The act of one who smites. vb. (present participle of smite English)
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.