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mote
/moʊt/
noun 5verb 3name 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
espy, espy
VERB + MOTE
cast, place, sees
MOTE + NOUN
another's, dust, scath, thy, worke
PREP.
in, out, out, up
Definitions
noun
1
A small particle; a speck.
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.
What shall a Mote up to a Monarch rise? An Emmet match an Emperor in might?
verb
1
May or might.
he […] kept aloofe for dread to be descryde, / Untill fit time and place he mote espy, / Where he mote worke him scath and villeny.
2
Must.
3
Forming subjunctive expressions of wish: may.
‘I shall not take Vengeance into my own Hands. The Goddess will do what She will.’ ‘So mote it be,’ said the Grandmaster.
noun
1
A meeting for discussion.
a wardmote in the city of London
2
A body of persons who meet for discussion, especially about the management of affairs.
a folk mote
3
A place of meeting for discussion.
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Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.
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What shall a Mote up to a Monarch rise? An Emmet match an Emperor in might?
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I wanted to shrink myself to a mote of dust, plunge into this pool I held in my own cyclopean hands, soar down these runs of light to places where light itself was born from this colloquy of dust.
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he […] kept aloofe for dread to be descryde, / Untill fit time and place he mote espy, / Where he mote worke him scath and villeny.
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‘I shall not take Vengeance into my own Hands. The Goddess will do what She will.’ ‘So mote it be,’ said the Grandmaster.
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a wardmote in the city of London
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