wrate

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wrate

  1. (obsolete) simple past of write
    • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 29–30, 33–35:
      I shall you make relacyon
      By way of apostrofacyon []
      How I, Skelton laureat,
      Devysed and also wrate
      Uppon a lewde curate, []