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beseech

verb
/bɪˈsiːt͡ʃ/

Etymology

From Middle English besechen, bisechen, prefixed form of Old English sēċan (“to seek or inquire about”); compare the doublet beseek, from the same dialect that gave seek. Cognate with Saterland Frisian besäike (“to visit”), Dutch bezoeken (“to visit, attend, see”), German besuchen (“to visit, attend, see”), Swedish besöka (“to visit, go to see”). By surface analysis, be- + seech.

  1. derived from sēċan — “to seek or inquire about”
  2. inherited from besechen

Definitions

  1. To beg or implore something of (a person).

    • [W]e beſche thee, leaue vs not comfortles, but ſende to vs thine holy ghoſt to comfort vs, and exalte vs vnto thy ſame place, whither our ſauiour Chriſte is gone before: […]

  2. To beg or request for (something).

    • [T]he tickets had all been given out, begged, besought long ago.

  3. A request.

    • Good madam, hear the suit that Edith urges, With such submiss beseeches; [...]

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Derived

beseecher, beseechment

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at beseech. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at beseech. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at beseech

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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