Loste

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. An obsolete spelling of the past tense and past participle of the verb meaning to be unable to find or keep something
2. Old form of the past tense of the verb to fail to keep, find, or hold onto something, now replaced by a modern spelling
3. Archaic variant of the past form of the verb meaning to no longer have or be deprived of something one once possessed

Etymology: "Loste" is a Middle English spelling of "lost," the past participle and past tense of "lose." The verb descends from Old English "losian," meaning "to perish" or "to come to ruin," a sense that survives in the older idea of a soul being lost.