Spake vs Slake - What's the difference?
spake | slake |
(archaic) (speak)
* , Genesis 8:15-16
*Sir (c.1569-1626)
*:When the body's strongest sinews slake .
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*:wherfor the quene waxed wroth with sir Launcelot / and vpon a day she called sir launcelot vnto her chamber and saide thus / Sir launcelot I see and fele dayly that thy loue begynneth to slake / for thou hast no Ioye to be in my presence / but euer thou arte oute of thys Courte
To go out; to become extinct.
*(Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)
*:His flame did slake .
(label) To satisfy (thirst, or other desires); to quench; to extinguish.
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:It could not slake mine ire nor ease my heart.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:slake the heavenly fire
(label) To cool (something) with water or another liquid.
*1961 , (Lawrence Durrell), , p.14:
*:Notes for landscape tones. Long sequences of tempera. Light filtered through the essence of lemons. An air full of brick-dust - sweet smelling brick dust and the odour of hot pavements slaked with water.
(label) To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.
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(label) To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place.
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As verbs the difference between spake and slake
is that spake is (archaic) (speak) while slake is .As an adjective spake
is (obsolete) quiet; tame.spake
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) spake, spak, from (etyl) .Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) spak, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
- And God spake unto Noah, saying,
Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.