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traceth

traceth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of trace.

Meaning of trace

Verb

trace (third-person singular simple present traces, present participle tracing, simple past and past participle traced)

  1. (transitive) To follow the trail of.
    • I feel thy power […] to trace the ways / Of highest agents.1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
  2. To follow the history of.
    • You may trace the deluge quite round the globe.1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
  3. (transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
    • He carefully traced the outlines of the old building before him.
  4. (transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To copy; to imitate.
    • That servile path thou nobly dost decline, / Of tracing word by word, and line by line.1647, John Denham, To Sir Richard Fanshaw
  6. (intransitive, obsolete) To walk; to go; to travel.
    • Not wont on foote with heavy armes to trace.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 29

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Origin of traceth

trace + -eth

Questions about traceth

What is traceth the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Traceth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of trace.

Words near traceth in the dictionary

  1. tracery
  2. traces
  3. traces down
  4. traces italiennes
  5. tracest
  6. traceth
  7. traceur
  8. traceurs
  9. traceuse
  10. traceuses
  11. Tracey

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