Hath

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hath \Hath\ (h[a^]th), v., 3d pers. sing. pres. of {Have},
     contracted from haveth.
     Has. [Archaic.]
     [1913 Webster]
  
           What hath God wrought?                   --Samuel F. B.


                                                    Morse [The
                                                    first message
                                                    sent by
                                                    telegraph,
                                                    from Mr.
                                                    Morse, at the
                                                    chamber of the
                                                    Supreme Court
                                                    (then in the
                                                    United States
                                                    Capitol) to
                                                    his assistant
                                                    Albert Vail at
                                                    the Mount
                                                    Clair Depot in
                                                    Baltimore in
                                                    1844. Mr.
                                                    Morse allowed
                                                    Annie
                                                    Ellsworth, the
                                                    daughter of a
                                                    friend, to
                                                    choose the
                                                    words, which
                                                    she took from
                                                    Numbers xxiii.
                                                    23.]
     [PJC]