thoughten

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English

Etymology

From thought +‎ -en (past participle ending).

Verb

thoughten

  1. (nonstandard) past participle of think.

Middle English

Alternative forms

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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