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In some senses, boke is marked as obsolete, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.
boke
UK /bəʊk/ US /boʊk/
verb 2noun 1
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1BOKE + NOUN
chapiture, devysed, la, t
Definitions
verb
1
To thrust or push out; butt; poke.
2
To retch or vomit.
noun
1
Obsolete form of book.
Therefore to make complaynt / Of such mysadvysed / Parsons and dysgysed, / Thys boke we have devysed, […]
That is / like as the church doth read yͤ bokes of Iudith / Thobias / and the Machabees / but receaveth them not emonge the canonicall ſcriptures / even ſo let it read theſe two bokes (he meaneth yͤ boke of ſapience and eccleſiaſticus) vnto the edefyinge of the people / and not to confirme the doctrine of the church therbye.
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Therefore to make complaynt / Of such mysadvysed / Parsons and dysgysed, / Thys boke we have devysed, […]
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That is / like as the church doth read yͤ bokes of Iudith / Thobias / and the Machabees / but receaveth them not emonge the canonicall ſcriptures / even ſo let it read theſe two bokes (he meaneth yͤ b
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Fyrſt therfore to ſpeake of Spayne, ⁊ by the teſtimonie of oulde autours to declare the commodities therof: Plinie a graue ⁊ faythful autour, in the laſt boke ⁊ laſt chapiture of his natural hiſtory g
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