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Middle English
Verb
priken (third-person singular simple present priketh, present participle prikende, prikynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle priked)
- Alternative form of prikken
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 9-11.
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open eye-
(So priketh hem Nature in hir corages);- And many little birds make melody
That sleep through all the night with open eye
(So Nature pricks them on to ramp and rage)