Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to cant
Participle: canted
Gerund: canting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | cant |
| you | cant |
| he;she;it | cants |
| we | cant |
| you | cant |
| they | cant |
Perfect
| I | have canted |
| you | have canted |
| he;she;it | has canted |
| we | have canted |
| you | have canted |
| they | have canted |
Past
| I | canted |
| you | canted |
| he;she;it | canted |
| we | canted |
| you | canted |
| they | canted |
Pluperfect
| I | had canted |
| you | had canted |
| he;she;it | had canted |
| we | had canted |
| you | had canted |
| they | had canted |
Future
| I | will cant |
| you | will cant |
| he;she;it | will cant |
| we | will cant |
| you | will cant |
| they | will cant |
Future Perfect
| I | will have canted |
| you | will have canted |
| he;she;it | will have canted |
| we | will have canted |
| you | will have canted |
| they | will have canted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | cant |
| you | cant |
| he;she;it | cant |
| we | cant |
| you | cant |
| they | cant |
Perfect
| I | have canted |
| you | have canted |
| he;she;it | have canted |
| we | have canted |
| you | have canted |
| they | have canted |
Imperfect
| I | canted |
| you | canted |
| he;she;it | canted |
| we | canted |
| you | canted |
| they | canted |
Pluperfect
| I | had canted |
| you | had canted |
| he;she;it | had canted |
| we | had canted |
| you | had canted |
| they | had canted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would cant |
| you | would cant |
| he;she;it | would cant |
| we | would cant |
| you | would cant |
| they | would cant |
Perfect
| I | would have canted |
| you | would have canted |
| he;she;it | would have canted |
| we | would have canted |
| you | would have canted |
| they | would have canted |
Imperative
| you | cant |
| we | Let's cant |
| you | cant |
Verbs conjugated like 'cant'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'cant'
ant,
can,
cane,
cart,
cast,
cat,
chant,
jant,
lant,
pant,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "insincere talk," 1709, earlier, slang for "whining of beggars," (1567), from O.N.Fr.
canter "to sing, chant" from L.
cantare, freq. of
canere "to sing" (see chant). Developed after 1680 to mean the jargon of criminals and vagabonds, then applied contemptuously by any sect or school to the phraseology of its rival.
2. From Latin cantō, probably via Old Northern French canter (“sing, tell”). Doublet of chant. See: Latin '
cantō'.
Sample Sentences
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The Doctor here, I will proceed with the learned. / VVhen he diſcourſeth of diſſection, / Or any point of Anatomy: that hee tells you, / Of Vena caua, and of vena porta, / The Meſeraicks, and the Meſenterium. / VVhat does he elſe but cant? […] / Does he not cant? VVho here does vnderſtand him? [1625 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Staple of Newes. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot […], published 1631, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iv, page 59:]
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[…]that uncouth affected garb of speech, or canting language rather, if I may so call it [1854, Robert Sanderson, “The case of the liturgy”, in The Works of Robert Sanderson, D.D., Sometime Bishop of Lincoln, volume 5, page 56:]
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[I]f he proue not yet / The cunningſt, ranckeſt Rogue that euer Canted, / Ile neuer ſee man againe, […] [c. 1607–1611 (first performance), [Francis Beaumont], Iohn Fletcher, Cupids Revenge. […], London: […] Thomas Creede for Iosias Harison, […], published 1615, →OCLC, Act IV, signature H3, recto:]
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[S]he was one of your ſoft ſpoken, canting, whining hypocrites, who with a truly jeſuitical art, could wreſt evil out of the moſt inoffenſive thought, word, look or action; […] [1765, Catherine Jemmat, The Memoirs of Mrs. Catherine Jemmat, Daughter of the Late Admiral Yeo, of Plymouth. Written by Herself, 2nd edition, volume I, London: Printed for the author, at Charing-Cross, →OCLC, page 145:]
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[…]labouring with all their might for preventing the bishops from letting their revenues at a moderate half value[…] at the very instant, when they were every where canting their own land upon short leases, and sacrificing their oldest tenants for a penny an acre advance. [1720, Jonathan Swift, A Proposal for the Use of Irish Manufacture:]