usedst to
English
Verb
- (archaic) second-person singular simple past indicative of use to
- 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XIII. From Mr. Lovelace; In Continuation.”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume III, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 91:
- But how I excurſe!—Yet thou uſedſt to ſay, thou likedſt my excurſions. If thou doſt, thou’lt have enow of them: For I never had a ſubject I ſo much adored; […]
- 1917 December 1, “Father Oswald: A Genuine Catholig[sic] Story”, in The Catholic Advance, volume XXVIII, number 9, Wichita, Kan.: The Advance Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, chapter II, page 6, column 4:
- “[…] Shall I go and call Mr. Ebenezer, the Methodist preacher?” “No, no, Mary, by no means. I have often heard him preach, but I never found peace to my soul, I always came away with a heart as heavy and as cold as a stone.” “How so? Thou usedst to call him a wonderful man.”
- 1936 February 17, “This Won’t Get the Prize”, in The Bangor Daily News, volume XLVII, Bangor, Me.: Bangor Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, column 2:
- Well, Liberty, if that’s your theme, you will not blame me when I dream of days to come when you’ll regain your old, long-lost, but loved refrain. At any rate, the song I raise is mindful of those sterner lays when a stanch bard could gladly come to you nor snivel like a bum. Not as thou art I sing to thee, but as the gal thou usedst to be!