English

Verb

vext

1. (archaic) simple past tense of vex
   • What happiness to reign a lonely king,
     Vext — O ye stars that shudder over me,
     O earth that soundest hollow under me,
     Vext with waste dreams?
     — Tennyson, Idylls of the King, "The Coming of Arthur"
   • And that same night, the night of the new year,
     By reason of the bitterness and grief
     That vext his mother, all before his time
     Was Arthur born [...]
     — Tennyson, Idylls of the King, "The Coming of Arthur"
   • [...] and thence
     Taking my war-horse from the holy man,
     Glad that no phantom vext me more, return'd
     To whence I came, the gate of Arthur's wars.
     — Tennyson, Idylls of the King, "Holy Grail"