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bewrite

verb

Etymology

From Middle English bewriten, from Old English bewrītan (“to write, record, copy”), from Proto-West Germanic *biwrītan (“to write down; write about”), equivalent to be- (“about, over”) + write. Cognate with Old Frisian biwrīta (“to write down”), Middle Low German bewriten (“to engrave; to pronounce a blessing”), German bereiẞen (“to scale something by hand, carry out manually”). Compare also Dutch beschrijven (“to describe”), German beschreiben (“to describe”), Swedish beskriva (“to describe”).

  1. inherited from *biwrītan✻ — “to write down; write about”
  2. inherited from bewrītan — “to write, record, copy”
  3. inherited from bewriten

Definitions

  1. To write about

    To write about; describe.

    • I vow and purpose, here in the presence of " Billy Shakspeare," to bewrite this ill-starred foolscap!!
    • I humbly beg of you, for God's sake and your own, to read what I here presume to bewrite: [...]
    • "I said it was a pleasureful thing to be thus bewritten upward. [...]"

  2. To write to.

    • After I bewrote thee yesterday Mrs. Neville drove Lady Charlotte, young Bagot (Clerk) and self into Glastonbury.

  3. To write

    To write; write from; copy.

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