Definition of "workes" []

• Plural form of worke. (noun)

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• "Voluntarie workes besydes, ouer and aboue Gods commaundementes, which they call workes of supererogation, can not be taught without arrogancie and impietie."
• "Here you Enter ye guard Chamber adorn'd with pikes, Halberts, Biounetts Daggers and Pistolls and gunns, wth Bandeleers or pouches for amunition, all set in workes and ffigures about the Wanscoate, over ye Chimney Pistolls and Daggers sett like the starre in the garter Thence you go into an anty room hung wth tapestry, thence into ye Common audience roome where was a throne and Cannopy, crimson Damaske with Gold ffringe; the form the same round the roome."
• "_Almansor_ a king of _Marrocco_ diuerse Philosophicall workes, and by their regall example our late soueraigne Lord king _Henry_ the eight wrate"