GUESTED

Verb

guested

simple past tense and past participle of guest

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Source: Wiktionary


GUEST

Guest, n. Etym: [OE. gest, AS. gæst, gest; akin to OS., D., & G. gust, Icel gestr, Sw. gäst, Dan. Gjäst, Goth. gast, Russ. goste, and to L. hostis enemy, stranger; the meaning stranger is the older one, but the root is unknown. Cf. Host an army, Hostile.]

1. A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay. To cheer his gueste, whom he had stayed that night. Spenser. True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest. Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. Pope.

Guest, v. t.

Definition: To receive or entertain hospitably. [Obs.] Sylvester.

Guest, v. i.

Definition: To be, or act the part of, a guest. [Obs.] And tell me, best of princes, who he was That guested here so late. Chapman.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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