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# spake

«spake» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **spoke** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

spoke

### part of speech

verb, past tense of speak

### meaning for a pupil

Said words aloud, in the past. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/spake/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say spoke. The sentences use the same sense.

### examples

- Thus spake Dvina while blessing him:-- (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/spake/#x1)
- And she spake to her and said: (The Pink Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/spake/#x2)
- Thus spake the old man, and straightway disappeared. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/spake/#x3)

### primary record

spoke

### tests

manual 6; corpora 48 (Torah 0, tales 48, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 5.4 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «spake» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/spake/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.