Oathed vs Tathed - What's the difference?
oathed | tathed |
(oath)
A solemn pledge or promise to a god, king, or another person, to attest to the truth of a statement or contract
* 1924 , Aristotle, Metaphysics , Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Available at: . Book 1, Part 3.
The affirmed statement or promise accepted as equivalent to an oath .
A light or insulting use of a solemn pledge or promise to a god, king or another person, to attest to the truth of a statement or contract the name of a deity in a profanity, as in swearing oaths .
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(legal) An affirmation of the truth of a statement.
pledge, vow, avowal
(tath)
The dung of livestock left on a field to serve as manure or fertiliser.
A piece of ground dunged by livestock.
Strong grass growing around the dung of kine.
To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it.
(Webster 1913)
As verbs the difference between oathed and tathed
is that oathed is past tense of oath while tathed is past tense of tath.oathed
English
Verb
(head)oath
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(wikipedia oath)Noun
(en noun)- for they made Ocean and Tethys the parents of creation, and described the oath of the gods as being by water,
Sam Leith
Where the profound meets the profane, passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths'. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "' oaths " and "swearing" itself.}}
