different between smite vs osmite
smite
English
Alternative forms
- smight (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English smiten, from Old English sm?tan (“to daub, smear, smudge; soil, defile, pollute”), from Proto-Germanic *sm?tan? (“to sling; throw; smear”), from Proto-Indo-European *smeyd- (“to smear, whisk, strike, rub”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian smiete (“to throw, toss”), West Frisian smite (“to throw”), Low German smieten (“to throw, chuck, toss”), Dutch smijten (“to fling, hurl, throw”), Middle Low German besmitten (“to soil, sully”), German schmeißen (“to fling, throw”), Danish smide (“to throw”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????????? (bismeitan, “to besmear, anoint”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: sm?t, IPA(key): /sma?t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
Verb
smite (third-person singular simple present smites, present participle smiting, simple past smote or smited or (obsolete) smit, past participle smitten or smote or smited or (obsolete) smit)
- (archaic) To hit, to strike.
- It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. […]. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.
- To strike down or kill with godly force.
- 1611, King James Version, Exodus 3:19–20:
- And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand. And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.
- 1611, King James Version, Exodus 3:19–20:
- To injure with divine power.
- To kill violently; to slay.
- To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
- To afflict; to chasten; to punish.
- 1688, William Wake, Preparation for Death
- Let us not mistake the goodness of God, nor imagine that because he smites us, therefore we are forsaken by him.
- 1688, William Wake, Preparation for Death
- (figuratively, now only in passive) To strike with love or infatuation.
Noun
smite (plural smites)
- (archaic, rare) A heavy blow or stroke with a weapon, tool or the hand.
Translations
Anagrams
- METIs, MSTie, Metis, Métis, STEMI, Times, e-stim, emits, i-stem, items, metis, mites, métis, setim, stime, times
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian sm?ta, from Proto-Germanic *sm?tan?, from Proto-Indo-European *smeyd-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?smit?/
Verb
smite
- to throw
- to fling
Inflection
Further reading
- “smite (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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osmite
English
Noun
osmite (plural osmites)
- (chemistry) A salt of osmious acid.
Anagrams
- Tomeis, mitose, somite
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