the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
v. Said; spoke; uttered; -- used only in the first and third persons in the past tenses, and always followed by its nominative, the word or words said being the object.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Preterit of quethe.
Word Usage
"Sultan’; and again quoth he, ‘If calamity befal one who is not pure by ablution; verily and assuredly let him blame none but himself.’"