smote

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Smote, slew, throve and forsook sound odd, and few people use them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Those shafts with feathers bright as gold, Like flames which wreaths of smoke enfold, Smote down the fiends like tall trees rent By red bolts from the firmament.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

The voice that spoke in moving tone Smote on her ear and seemed thine own.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all the chords with might; Smote the chord of self that, trembling, pass’d in music out of sight!”

From She and I, Volume 1 by Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)

But Karagwe, when once he turned again, Smote wildly his infuriated breast.

From Stories in Verse by Abbey, Henry