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English
Etymology
See kydde, imperative of kythe (“to show”). Apparently a misunderstanding by Spenser.
Verb
kydst
- (obsolete, nonce word) knows (second-person singular)
1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “December. Ægloga Duodecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: , London: Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, , →OCLC:But, ah! unwise and witlesse Colin Cloute, / That kydst the hidden kindes of many a weede, / Yet kydst not ene to cure thy fore heart-roote, / Whose ranckling wound as yet does rifely bleede.