<span class="searchmatch">mighte</span> Obsolete spelling of might. mightie <span class="searchmatch">mighte</span> Obsolete spelling of might....
More at might. micht Power; ability; capacity. maucht From Middle English <span class="searchmatch">mighte</span>, from Old English mihte, meahte, first and third person indicative preterite...
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Clerk's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 563: [...] Wel <span class="searchmatch">mighte</span> a mooder than han cryed ‘allas!’ [...] Well might a mother then have cried...
Criseyde[1]: The sterne wind so loude gan to route That no wight other noyse <span class="searchmatch">mighte</span> here; And they that layen at the dore with-oute, 745 Ful sykerly they slepten...
That al that night, thogh that men wolde him shake, The gayler sleep, he <span class="searchmatch">mighte</span> nat awake; [...] For he had so given his jailer drink Of a spiced and sweetened...
is sone ago; And if a rethor coude faire endyte, He in a cronique saufly <span class="searchmatch">mighte</span> it wryte, As for a sovereyn notabilitee. God knows that worldly joy is soon...
That al that night, thogh that men wolde him shake, The gayler sleep, he <span class="searchmatch">mighte</span> nat awake; And thus he fleeth as faste as ever he may. For he had so given...
am gracyus and grete, god withoutyn begynnyng, / I am maker vnmade, all <span class="searchmatch">mighte</span> es in me, / I am lyfe and way vnto welth-wynnyng, / I am formaste and fyrste...
is sone ago; And if a rethor coude faire endyte, He in a cronique saufly <span class="searchmatch">mighte</span> it wryte, As for a sovereyn notabilitee. God knows that worldly joy is soon...
See also: Maye and mayé maye (past <span class="searchmatch">mighte</span>) Obsolete spelling of may. 1915, Laban Miles Hoffman, “Preface”, in Our Kin, Being a History of the Hoffman,...