ebat

Updated: May 24, 2025

But my friend "the Irish clergyman" wrote me a full account of what he heard with his own ears; which was to the effect that none of the sounds, vowels or consonants, were foreign; that the strange words were moulded after the Latin grammar, ending in -abus, -obus, -ebat, -avi, &c., so as to denote poverty of invention rather than spiritual agency; and that there was no interpretation.

Francis William Newman - Phases of Faith: Passages from the History of My Creed