thoughten
English
Middle English
Alternative forms
- thoghten, þoghten, þoughten, þoȝten, þouȝten
Verb
thoughten
- 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.
- c. 1500, The Turke and Sir Gawain
- All the giants thoughten then
- To have strucke out Sir Gawaines braine.
- 1589, George Peele, An Eclogue Gratulatory
- And for their mistress, thoughten the two swains,
- They moughten never take too mickle pains;
- c. 1450, Prose Merlin
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