To hit; to strike.
Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
To strike down or kill with godly force.
And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand. And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.
To injure with divine power.
A heavy strike with a weapon, tool, or the hand.
On the other hand , your soft-headed, softhearted sentimentalist, whose heart is in his waistcoat pocket, always at hand for use, he who picks out the pretty parts of modern novels, and the tender parts of affecting tales, never hears of two young people meeting one another, but he begins to think that a smite must follow.
A river in Nottinghamshire, with its headwaters in Leicestershire, England, which joins the River Devon, near Shelton.
From Middle English smiten, from Old English smītan (“to daub, smear, smudge; soil, defile, pollute”), from Proto-West Germanic *smītan, from Proto-Germanic *smītaną (“to sling; throw; smear”), from P...
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