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bedrift

verb

Etymology

From be- (“about, around”) + drift.

  1. derived from *dʰreybʰ-✻
  2. derived from *driftiz✻
  3. derived from *drift✻
  4. derived from drift
  5. prefixed as bedrift — “be + drift”

Definitions

  1. To drift about

    To drift about; drift around.

    • The disowned of all parties, the rejected and foolishly bedrifted hither and thither, to what corner of Nature can he now drift with advantage?
    • Yet to him a new Madonna For the baby-boy who nestled On her bosom, all bedrifted With her yellow hair, [...]
    • [...] That season were singing aloud round my shield. When the hollow-wrought sun-disc that Frodis' arm holdeth With blood was bedrifted before the ring's lord, [...]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA