mounteth

Verb

mount (third-person singular simple present mounts, present participle mounting, simple past and past participle mounted)

1. (transitive) To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
   • to mount stairs
2. (transitive) To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride.
   • The rider mounted his horse.
3. (transitive) To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding.
   • to mount the Trojan troop1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
4. (obsolete, transitive) To cause (something) to rise or ascend; to drive up; to raise; to elevate; to lift up.
   • What power is it which mounts my love so high?c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
5. (transitive) To sit on a combatant's torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head; to assume the mount position in ground grappling.
6. (intransitive, rare) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; often with up.
   • Though Babylon ſhould mount vp to heauen, and though ſhee ſhould fortifie the height of her ſtrength, yet from me ſhall ſpoilers come vnto her, ſaith the Lord.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 51:53, column 1

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