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begrip

verb

Etymology

From be- + grip. Compare begripe.

  1. inherited from gripa
  2. inherited from gripe
  3. inherited from grippe
  4. inherited from *gripjaną✻
  5. inherited from grippan
  6. inherited from grippen
  7. prefixed as begrip — “be + grip”

Definitions

  1. To grip around or about

    To grip around or about; get a grip on; grasp.

    • Then the girdled hilt seiz'd he, the Wolf of the Scyldings, The rough and the sword-grim, and drew forth the ring-sword, Naught weening of life, and wrathful he smote then So that there on her halse the hard edge begripped, [...]
    • They try to begrip by conceptions that which no conception can grasp save when conception is full-open with consciousness, and identical with it.
    • Then parted Frowin and Garnum, and, hands begripped, they solemnly repeated the foster-brother oath: "Thy kin will I protect; thy honor will I guard. Parted or together, when thou diest then will I die also: [...]

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