Talk:ablest

RFV discussion: April–May 2016
Archaic second-person form, i.e. "thou ablest" = "you able" (verb). I can only see scannos in Google Books. Equinox ◑ 00:05, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Century says Shakespeare, Donne, Chapman, and Bishops Latimer and Bale used the verb able. Plays, poetry, sermons and speeches could contain something.
 * OTOH neither Century nor OED use this form in any of their citations. DCDuring TALK 02:04, 16 April 2016 (UTC)


 * I found one, but only one:
 * 1857 (1616?), The Odyssey, translated by G. Chapman, book 12, starting on line 410:
 * 'Cruel Ulysses! Since thy nerves abound / In strength, the more spent, and no toils confound / Thy able limbs, as all beat out of steel, / Thou ablest us too, as unapt to feel / The teeth of Labour[.]'
 * - -sche (discuss) 05:22, 16 April 2016 (UTC)


 * RFV-failed. An IP found the same one citation, with different particulars. - -sche (discuss) 04:13, 21 May 2016 (UTC)