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# beatest

verb, old form used with thou

«beatest» in the English dictionary: Early Modern English — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Early Modern English

### Meaning

«beatest» means «you beat», a form of «beat»: To beat is to win against someone. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/beatest/#m1)

### Then and now

Only the ending is old: -est or -st was the ending used with thou, which today is you with no ending: «thou beatest» = «you beat».

### Examples

- When thou beatest thine olive-tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. (Torah DEU.24.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/beatest/#x1)

### Note

Today: you beat.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «beatest» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/B/beatest/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«beatest» in the Early Modern English dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/emode/w/beatest.html) on Mova free.