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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

To address as thou, esp. to do so in order to treat with insolent familiarity or contempt.

If thou

thouest

him some thrice, it shall not be amiss.

Shakespeare

Verb.

To use the words thou and thee in discourse after the manner of the Friends.

[R.]

, pron. in the obj. thee. The second personal pronoun, in the singular number; the pronoun which is used in addressing persons in the solemn style.

Art thou he that should come? Matt.11.

I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Ps.23.

Thou is used only in the solemn style, unless in very familiar language, and by the Quakers.

Verb.

To treat with familiarity.

If thou thouest him some thrice, it shall not be amiss.

Verb.

To use thou and thee in discourse.