Tin in fire departeth metals of divers kind, and it departeth lead and brass from gold and silver, and defendeth other metals in hot fire.
Also he that defendeth a Towne, oughte to provide that nothing bee done tumultuouslye and disordinatelye, and to take suche order, that in all accidentes everye man maye knowe what he hath to doo.
It is nat to understonde 70 that any thing defendeth or forbit thee thy wil, whiche shal nat be; or els constrayneth it to be, whiche shal be.
But this necessite neither constrayneth ne defendeth any-thing to be or nat to be.
Now sithen he defendeth, that man shal nat yeven to his brother ne to his freend the might of his body, / by a strenger resoun he defendethand forbedeth a man to yeven him-self to his enemy.
And it bihoveth that a man putte swich attemperance in his defence, /2725 that men have no cause ne matere to repreven him that defendeth him of excesse and outrage; for elles were it agayn resoun.
And where such a prince is, thou seest again, how God defendeth him and his people, though he have never so many enemies.
For there be some things which are done and written, to the intent that we should do likewise; as when Abraham believeth God, is obedient unto his word, and defendeth Loth his kinsman from violent wrong.
How Panurge patrocinates and defendeththe Order of the Begging Friars Chapter 3.
How Panurge patrocinates anddefendeth the Order of the Begging Friars.
For yif it so be that men dyen in al, that is to seyn, body and sowle, the whiche thing our resoun defendeth us to bileven, thanne is ther no glorie in no wyse.
The Lord careth for the strangers, he defendeth the fatherless and widow: as for the way of the ungodly, he turneth it upside down.
He is a father of the fatherless, and defendeth the cause of the widows: even God in his holy habitation.
Briant's people come thither and take King Arthur by the bridle, and the King defendeth himself as a good knight, and maketh a ring about him amongst them that attack him, the same as doth a wild boar amongst the dogs.
But Perceval defendeth himself as good knight should, and giveth such a buffet at the outset as smiteth off his arm together with his sword.
Messire Gawain seeth the ship going further away, and Perceval that defendeth himself therein against them that set upon him.
These politic and terrestrial leagues and unions have no hand nor share in the Gospel: God alone preserveth and defendeth the same in times of persecution.
But who kept and preserved it from such great and raging power; or, Who defendeth it still?
And what Hooker saith for popular power, his first and eighth books abundantly testify: and even Bishop Bilson himself defendeth the French and German protestant wars; and you may judge of his loyal doctrine by these words, p.
Dr Mortoune maintaineth such an adoration in the sacrament as he calleth relative from the sign to Christ; and Paybody(672) defendeth him herein.
Aquinas(457) defendeth that trin-immersion is not de necessitate baptismi, only he thinks it a sin to baptise otherwise, because this rite is instituted and used by the church.
For instance whereof, Hooker defendeth the lawfulness of festival days by the law of nature.
And when he defendeth his healing on Sabbaths, Luke xiii.
And he suffereth well that Christian men dwell in his lordship, and that men of his faith be made Christian men if they will, throughout all his country; for he defendeth no man to hold no law other than him liketh.
And the king of Abchaz hath the more strong country, and he always vigorously defendeth his country against all those that assail him, so that no man may make him in subjection to no man.
For they have had often-time war between them, because that the great Chan would constrain him to hold his land of him; but that other at all times defendeth him well against him.
But while he can defend himself he defendeth himself without complaint, and when he can no longer defend himself there be few boars that will not complain or cry out when they are overcome to the death.
The fox does not complain (cry) when men slay him, but he defendeth himself with all his power while he is alive.
She hath an evil biting and venomous and with her strength defendeth herself mightily from the hounds.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "defendeth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
