Gest vs Goest - What's the difference?
gest | goest |
(obsolete) A gesture or action.
* , II.ix:
* , II.36:
(archaic) A story or adventure; a verse or prose romance.
(archaic) An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.
(archaic) bearing; deportment
* Spenser
(obsolete) A stage in travelling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey; a rest.
(obsolete) A roll reciting the several stages arranged for a royal progress.
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* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
*:"Ha," said Robin, "comest thou from Locksley Town? Well do I know that fair place for miles about, and well do I know each hedgerow and gentle pebbly stream, and even all the bright little fishes therein, for there I was born and bred. Now, where goest thou with thy meat, my fair friend?"
As a noun gest
is (obsolete) a gesture or action or gest can be (obsolete) a stage in travelling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey; a rest.As a verb goest is
(go).gest
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) geste.Noun
(en noun)- They did obeysaunce, as beseemed right, / And then againe returned to their restes: / The Porter eke to her did lout with humble gestes .
- more Kings and Princes have written his gestes' and actions, than any other historians, of what quality soever, have registred the ' gests , or collected the actions of any other King or Prince that ever was.
- (Chaucer)
- (Spenser)
- (Mede)
- through his heroic grace and honorable gest
Etymology 2
Compare gist a resting place.Noun
(en noun)- (Kersey)
- (Hanmer)
Anagrams
* ----goest
English
Verb
(head)- Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.