clothen

Middle English[edit]

clothen

(transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To clothe; to put clothing on (oneself, another).
(transitive, reflexive) To furnish with clothes.
(transitive) To enclose or surround.
(transitive) To secrete or hide; to stash away.
(transitive) To disguise oneself; to hide one's nature.
(reflexive) To gain a trait; to immerse in an abstract quantity.
- c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎^[1], published c. 1410, Coꝛinthis ·i· 15:54, page 67v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
  / but whanne þis dedli þing ſchal cloþe vndedlyneſſe .· þanne ſchal þe woꝛd be doon þat is writen / deþ is ſopun up in victoꝛie
  But when this mortal thing acquires immortality, then the saying that's been recorded will happen: "Death has been swallowed up in victory!"
(transitive, intransitive) To decorate or ornament.
(rare, intransitive) To be furnished with clothes.
(rare, transitive) To use or utilise.

Conjugation of clothen (weak in -de/in -ed)

infinitive	(to) clothen, clothe
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	clothe	cladde, clothed
2nd-person singular	clothest	claddest, clothedest
3rd-person singular	clotheth	cladde, clothed
subjunctive singular	clothe	cladde, clothed
imperative singular	clothe	—

plural¹	clothen, clothe	cladden, cladde, clotheden, clothede
imperative plural	clotheth, clothe	—

participles	clothynge, clothende	clad, clothed, yclad, yclothed

¹Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

“clōthen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-25.