Citations:worst


 * 1485 – Thomas Malory. Le Morte Darthur, Book X, Chapter lvii, leaf 256r
 * Ye saye wel said sir Tristram and wete ye wel that I am sire Tristram de lyones and now doo your werste.
 * "Ye say well, said Sir Tristram, and wit ye well that I am Sir Tristram de Liones, and now do your worst."


 * 1) (English verb)
 * 2) * to defeat, to get the better of
 * 3) ** 1942: He was a great man wholly worsted by his age. — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 145)
 * 4) ** some thrice-renowned Earl of Leicester, not of the De Montfort breed, (...) had quarreled with his sovereign, Henry Second of the name; had been worsted, it is like, and maltreated, and obliged to fly to foreign parts
 * 1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 2, Landlord Edmund