1. Infin. _lov-en_, _lov-e_; pt. t. _lov-[:e]de_, _lov-[:e]d_, _lov-(e)de_; pp. _lov[:e]d_, _lov(e)d_. The pt. t. pl. sometimes adds _-n_. Past tenses in which the full form in _-ede_ occurs are not common, on account of the tendency to shorten the word. We find _lakk-ede_, _wedd-ede_, _ned-ede_, in full, and the plurals _lok-eden_, _knokk-eden_, _yell-eden_; and even _aqueynt-eden_, from a word of French origin. _Liv-eden_ in D 1877 is really _liv'den_. The second _e_ is dropped in _ax-ed_, _folw-ed_, _lok-ed_, _long-ed_, &c. As an example of the convenience of a double form, observe the pt. s. _espy-ed_ riming with the pp. _all-yed_, B 3718; and the pt. pl. subj. _espy-de_ riming with _tyde_, L. 771. Here belong _answere_, pt. t. _answer-de_; _make_, pt. t. _mak-ed_, _ma-de_ (for _mak-e-de_), an extreme example of syncope, pp. _mak-ed_, _maad_, _m[=a]d_; _clepe_, pt. t. _clep-ed_, _clep-te_; _pley-en_, pt. t. _pley-de_, &c. Also some in which the stem has suffered some alteration, as _twicche_, pt. t. _twigh-te_; _picche_, pt. t. _pigh-te_; _prike_, pt. t. _prigh-te_; _reve_, pt. t. _ref-te_, _raf-te_, pp. _raf-t_; _clothe_, pt. t. _cladde_, _cledde_, pp. _cloth-ed_, _clad_, and even _cled_; _syke_, to sigh, pt. s. _syk-ed_, _sigh-te_. NOTE. The second person of the past tense takes the suffix _-st_, as in _lovedest_, contrary to the habit of the strong verbs. An anomalous form occurs in _thou made_, instead of _thou madest_. 2. Pt. t. _h[=e]r-en_, _h[=e]r-e,_ to hear; Pt. s. _h[)e]r-de_, Pp. _h[)e]r-d_. The vowel is shortened in the pt. s. and pp. before the two consonants. Here belong verbs ending in _-an_ in A.S., which almost invariably exhibit a mutated vowel in the infinitive mood; cf. A.S. _sendan_, Goth, _sandjan_. Here belong: _blende_, pt. _blente_; _f[=e]de_, pt. _fedde_; _f[=e]le_, pt. _felte_; _fille_, pt. _filde_; _gr[=e]te_, to greet, pt. _grette_; _hente_, pt. _hente_; _hyde_, pt. _hidde_, pp. _hid_, Kentish _hed_; _kepe_, pt. _kepte_; _kisse_, pt. _kiste_, Kentish _keste_; _lede_, pt. _ledde_, _ladde_; _mene_, to mean, pt. _mente_, _m[=e]te_, to meet, pt. _mette_; _rende_, pt. _rente_; _sende_, pt. _sende_, _sente_; _sette_, pt. _sette_; _spr[=e]de_, pt. _spradde_; _swete_, pt. _swatte_; _wende_, to go, pt. _wente_; _w[=e]ne_, to imagine, pt. _wende_. So also, _d[=e]men_, to deem, _s[=e]men_, to seem, which should make the pt. tenses _demde_, _semde_; but, as these forms seemed awkward, they became _demed_, _semed_. So also _l[=e]ve_, to leave, pt. _lefte_, _lafte_; _kythe_, to make known, pt. _kid-de_, pp. _kid_ or _kythed_. The old combinations _enct_, _engd_, became M.E. _eynt_, _eynd_. Hence we have _blenche_, pt. _bleynte_; _drenche_, pt. _dreynte_; _quenche_, pt. _queynte_; also the pp. forms _y-meynd_, _seynd_, _y-spreynd_, as if from the infin. _menge_, _senge_, _sprenge_. 3. Infin. _tell-en_, _tell-e_; Pt. s. _tol-de_; Pp. _tol-d_.