thoughten

thoughten

English

Etymology

    From thought + -en (past participle ending).

    Verb

    thoughten

    1. (nonstandard) past participle of think.

    Middle English

    Alternative forms

    • thoghten, þoghten, þoughten, þoȝten, þouȝten

    Etymology

    thought +‎ -en (verbal plural suffix).

    Verb

    thoughten

    1. plural past of thinken.
      • c. 1450, Prose Merlin:
        And in the menewhile that thei thoughten upon these thinges that thei hadde seyn, the squyer com the thridde tyme and smote his lorde sorer than he hadde don before.
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      • c. 1500, The Turke and Sir Gawain:
        All the giants thoughten then
        To have strucke out Sir Gawaines braine.
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      • 1589, George Peele, An Eclogue Gratulatory:
        And for their mistress, thoughten the two swains,
        They moughten never take too mickle pains;
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