Definition of "quencheth" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quench. (verb)

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• "Again, in their superiors, it quencheth jealousy towards them, as persons that they think they may, at pleasure, despise: and it layeth their competitors and emulators asleep; as never believing they should be in possibility of advancement, till they see them in possession."
• "That of body is nothing but a kind of benumbing laziness, intermitting exercise, which, if we may believe [1547] Fernelius, causeth crudities, obstructions, excremental humours, quencheth the natural heat, dulls the spirits, and makes them unapt to do any thing whatsoever."
• "The first pot quencheth thirst, so Panyasis the poet determines in Athenaeus, secunda gratiis, horis et"