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aroint

/əˈɹɔɪnt/

aroint verb: avaunt; begone; go away; leave!

aroint: avaunt; begone; go away; leave!
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Verb

aroint (third-person singular simple present aroints, present participle arointing, simple past and past participle arointed)

  1. (archaic, imperative, transitive) avaunt; begone; go away; leave!
    • And aroynt thee Witch, aroynt thee.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
    • Aroynt thee, Witch, the rumpe-fed Ronyon cryes.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  2. (archaic) to dispel; to send away.
    • Whiskered cats arointed flee,
      Sturdy stoppers keep from thee
      Cologne distillations.1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, To Flush, My Dog

Forms of aroint

third-person singular presentaroints
present participlearointing
past participlearointed
pastarointed

Origin of aroint

Uncertain, and subject to various attempts to connect it to multiple Germanic and Romance etymons; first attested in the First Folio, and sometimes posited to be an error for anoint, referring to a witch’s supposed flight-facilitating ointment, and thus being a commandment for her to anele herself and fly away; also said to be taken from the phrase rowan tree, thought to dispel witches.

Words that rhyme with aroint

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Questions about aroint

What does aroint mean?
Aroint means avaunt; begone; go away; leave!
What part of speech is aroint?
Aroint is a verb.
How do you pronounce aroint?
Aroint is pronounced /əˈɹɔɪnt/.
What is the past tense of aroint?
The past tense of aroint is arointed.

Words near aroint in the dictionary

  1. arogenic acid
  2. aroha
  3. aroid
  4. aroideous
  5. aroids
  6. aroint
  7. arointed
  8. arointing
  9. aroints
  10. arokeke
  11. arolia

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