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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

after-eye en · VERB

Etymology

From after- + eye.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To keep in view or sight.
    • Thou shouldst have made him As little as a crow, or less, ere left To after-eye him. 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
after-eyes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
after-eyed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
after-eyed Tense=Past lexicographic
after-eying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part rare lexicographic
after-eyeing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic