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English
Verb
vext
- (archaic) simple past and past participle of vex
1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 166:She was vext and angry, God wot:
"What hast thou here in the grove to do?
Little business, I trow, thou hast got."
1859, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Coming of Arthur”, in Idylls of the King:What happiness to reign a lonely king,
Vext — O ye stars that shudder over me,
O earth that soundest hollow under me,
Vext with waste dreams?
1859, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Coming of Arthur”, in Idylls of the King:And that same night, the night of the new year,
By reason of the bitterness and grief
That vext his mother, all before his time
Was Arthur born [...]
1859, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Holy Grail”, in Idylls of the King:[...] and thence
Taking my war-horse from the holy man,
Glad that no phantom vext me more, return'd
To whence I came, the gate of Arthur's wars.