"improvedst" meaning in English

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "improvedst",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1741 March 25, The New Whole Duty of Man, Containing the Faith as Well as Practice of a Christian; […], London: […] Edward Wicksteed […], page 129:",
          "text": "If thou hadſt leiſure from buſineſs, how improvedſt thy time?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1809, Joseph Milner, The History of the Church of Christ, volumes the second (Containing the Fourth and Fifth Centuries), Boston, Mass.: […] Farrand, Mallory, and Co., […]. Samuel T. Armstrong, […], Charlestown, page 295:",
          "text": "A false secular ambition was the only motive laid before me by my teachers; but thou, who numberest the hairs of our heads, improvedst their error to my advantage, whilst thou justly punishedst the great sins of so young an offender by their corrections.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1831, [Solomon Piggott], A Father’s Recollections of Three Pious Young Ladies; His Sermons at Their Funeral; and a Poem to Their Memory, Illustrating the Love of Guardian Angels, London: […] Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, page 53:",
          "text": "Girl! thou art now gone to experience the blessedness of that religion which thou soughtest in thy early years, which thou cherishedst as the great solace of thy retired hours, which thou anticipatedst in the sacred services of the sanctuary, and improvedst as the subject of sweet reflection in thy closet.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1837, the Lady E[mmeline] Stuart Wortley, Impressions of Italy, and Other Poems, London: Saunders and Otley, […], page 88:",
          "text": "It was thine hour! and thou improvedst it well, / Then didst thou shouting, of thy greatness tell!",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "improve"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "second-person singular simple past indicative of improve"
      ],
      "id": "en-improvedst-en-verb-bq1HH9D4",
      "links": [
        [
          "improve",
          "improve#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) second-person singular simple past indicative of improve"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "form-of",
        "indicative",
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "improvedst"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "improvedst",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English non-lemma forms",
        "English second-person singular past tense forms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verb forms",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1741 March 25, The New Whole Duty of Man, Containing the Faith as Well as Practice of a Christian; […], London: […] Edward Wicksteed […], page 129:",
          "text": "If thou hadſt leiſure from buſineſs, how improvedſt thy time?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1809, Joseph Milner, The History of the Church of Christ, volumes the second (Containing the Fourth and Fifth Centuries), Boston, Mass.: […] Farrand, Mallory, and Co., […]. Samuel T. Armstrong, […], Charlestown, page 295:",
          "text": "A false secular ambition was the only motive laid before me by my teachers; but thou, who numberest the hairs of our heads, improvedst their error to my advantage, whilst thou justly punishedst the great sins of so young an offender by their corrections.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1831, [Solomon Piggott], A Father’s Recollections of Three Pious Young Ladies; His Sermons at Their Funeral; and a Poem to Their Memory, Illustrating the Love of Guardian Angels, London: […] Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, page 53:",
          "text": "Girl! thou art now gone to experience the blessedness of that religion which thou soughtest in thy early years, which thou cherishedst as the great solace of thy retired hours, which thou anticipatedst in the sacred services of the sanctuary, and improvedst as the subject of sweet reflection in thy closet.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1837, the Lady E[mmeline] Stuart Wortley, Impressions of Italy, and Other Poems, London: Saunders and Otley, […], page 88:",
          "text": "It was thine hour! and thou improvedst it well, / Then didst thou shouting, of thy greatness tell!",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "improve"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "second-person singular simple past indicative of improve"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "improve",
          "improve#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) second-person singular simple past indicative of improve"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "form-of",
        "indicative",
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "improvedst"
}