priken

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Middle English

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Verb

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priken (third-person singular simple present priketh, present participle prikende, prikynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle priked)

  1. Alternative form of prikken
    • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 9-11.
      And smale foweles maken melodye,
      That slepen al the nyght with open eye-
      (So priketh hem Nature in hir corages);
      And many little birds make melody
      That sleep through all the night with open eye
      (So Nature pricks them on to ramp and rage)