Mote

/moʊt/ · noun

Meaning

(literary or puristic, otherwise archaic) A small particle; a speck..

Definitions by Sense

1. (literary or puristic, otherwise archaic) A small particle; a speck.
2. (archaic) May or might.
3. (obsolete) Must.
4. (archaic) Forming subjunctive expressions of wish: may.
5. (obsolete) A meeting for discussion.
6. (obsolete) A body of persons who meet for discussion, especially about the management of affairs.
7. (obsolete) A place of meeting for discussion.
8. A tiny computer for remote sensing; a component element of smartdust.

Example Sentences

Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.

What shall a Mote up to a Monarch rise? An Emmet match an Emperor in might?

I wanted to shrink myself to a mote of dust, plunge into this pool I held in my own cyclopean hands, soar down these runs of light to places where light itself was born from this colloquy of dust.

he […] kept aloofe for dread to be descryde, / Untill fit time and place he mote espy, / Where he mote worke him scath and villeny.

‘I shall not take Vengeance into my own Hands. The Goddess will do what She will.’ ‘So mote it be,’ said the Grandmaster.

a wardmote in the city of London

a folk mote

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Word Forms

• motes
• mote
• must

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