What's the difference between samite and smite?

Samite


Definition:

  • (a.) A species of silk stuff, or taffeta, generally interwoven with gold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It does not quite work like that now, which is a pity for Samit Patel, the match-winner on Saturday.

Smite


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To strike; to inflict a blow upon with the hand, or with any instrument held in the hand, or with a missile thrown by the hand; as, to smite with the fist, with a rod, sword, spear, or stone.
  • (v. t.) To cause to strike; to use as an instrument in striking or hurling.
  • (v. t.) To destroy the life of by beating, or by weapons of any kind; to slay by a blow; to kill; as, to smite one with the sword, or with an arrow or other instrument.
  • (v. t.) To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
  • (v. t.) To blast; to destroy the life or vigor of, as by a stroke or by some visitation.
  • (v. t.) To afflict; to chasten; to punish.
  • (v. t.) To strike or affect with passion, as love or fear.
  • (v. i.) To strike; to collide; to beat.
  • (n.) The act of smiting; a blow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He has realised what he's dealing with in mankind, and thinks, without saying it to Noah: "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth, neither will I smite any more every thing living, as I have done."
  • (2) George Osborne has seized on that as a stick to smite critics ( such as Vince Cable? )
  • (3) Before he was shackled to Hawley for eternity Smoot was more famous for his Mormonism and his abhorrence of bawdy books, a disgust that inspired the immortal headline “Smoot Smites Smut” after he attacked the importation of Lady’s Chatterley’s Lover, Robbie Burn’s more risqué poems and their like as “worse than opium … I would rather have a child of mine use opium than read these books.” But it was imports of another kind that secured Smoot and Hawley’s place in infamy.
  • (4) ‘Barack Obama and George W Bush rigged 2008’ Devil Smite (@redletterdave) facebook's promoting of fake news stories is getting out of hand.
  • (5) They're even less important when you've invented celestial Power Rangers which descend from the heavens and smite Sodom right up (this happens, pretty much).
  • (6) If all goes according to plan, those who have been "saved" by Jesus will rise into the air in the Rapture and look down as God smites billions of nonbelievers with a great earthquake rolling from city to city across the planet, and a bit of fire to boot.
  • (7) 'I could tell you the truth once you've taken the blow; if you smite me smartly I could spell out the facts of my house and home and my name, if it helps, then you'll pay me a visit and vouch for our pact.
  • (8) Children are welcome to ring the bell held by the medieval figure of Jack-smite-the-clock while you inspect the damage wrought by the Suffolk-born iconoclast William "Basher" Dowsing during the civil war: he scrubbed the faces from all the finely painted apostles and saints on the rood screen.
  • (9) He distances himself rather, though he does still need a reminder not to smite Earth's entirely smite-worthy inhabitants.
  • (10) The other side of using commissions and inquiries to smite your enemies is concocting them to legitimate your own political actions.
  • (11) In short, the Contempt of Court Act is circling over the media, waiting to smite those who go too far.
  • (12) One of his favourite words is "smite", as in someone (often a sportswriter) "having a smite" at him.

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