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Becast

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To cover or surround by casting (something) about. obsolete, transitive
  2. 2
    To cast about; plan; plot; contrive. intransitive, obsolete

Etymology

From Middle English bicasten, equivalent to be- + cast. Sense of plan, plot due to conflation with costen (“to contrive, try”). More at costen.

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