sweaten
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]sweaten
- (archaic) past participle of sweat
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 144, column 1:
- Greaze that's ſweaten / From the Murderers Gibbet, throw / Into the Flame.
- 1821, Lord Byron, “Cain, a Mystery”, in Sardanapalus, a Tragedy; The Two Foscari, a Tragedy; Cain, a Mystery, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 416:
- I have toil'd, and till'd, and sweaten in the sun, / According to the curse:—must I do more?