Beswear
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To swear by; swear about or regarding; swear at or to; promise transitive
"Some masters of the art take a pure child and set him in their lap, then lift his hand up and let him look into his nail, and beswear the child and the nail with a great adjuration, and then speak in the child's ear three unknown words, whereof one is Oriel, the others I withhold for fear of offending."
Example
More examples"Some masters of the art take a pure child and set him in their lap, then lift his hand up and let him look into his nail, and beswear the child and the nail with a great adjuration, and then speak in the child's ear three unknown words, whereof one is Oriel, the others I withhold for fear of offending."
Etymology
From be- + swear.
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