smite
(archaic) To hit; to strike.
But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
A harp can give out but a certain quantity of sound, however heavily it is smitten.
"Right you are!" I cried. "We must believe the other until we prove it false. We can't afford to give up heart now, when we need heart most. The branch was carried down by a river, and we are going to find that river." I smote my open palm with a clenched fist, to emphasize a determination unsupported by hope.
To strike down or kill with godly force.
And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand. And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.
To injure with divine power.
To kill violently; to slay.
"She is sitting in the great hall even now to do justice upon those who would have smitten thee and the Lion."
To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
To afflict; to chasten; to punish.
(figuratively) To strike with love or infatuation.
(archaic, rare) A heavy strike with a weapon, tool or the hand.
‘That is just what I was about to venture to propose,’returned the doctor with a smite. But the words were hardly uttered, before the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below.
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