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Bethink

//bɪˈθɪŋk// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To think about, to recollect. obsolete, transitive
  2. 2
    consider or ponder something carefully wordnet
  3. 3
    To think of (something or somebody) or that (followed by clause); to remind oneself, to consider, to reflect upon. reflexive

    "Baſ[ſanio]. Be aſſured you may. / Iew [i.e., Shylock]. I will be aſſured I may: and that I may be aſſured, I will bethinke mee, may I ſpeake with Anthonio?"

  4. 4
    cause oneself to consider something wordnet
  5. 5
    To meditate, ponder; to consider. intransitive
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  1. 6
    To determine, resolve.

Etymology

From Middle English bethenken, bithenchen (“to think about, consider”) from Old English beþenċan, biþenċan (“to think upon, remind, consider, remember”), from Proto-Germanic *biþankijaną; equivalent to be- + think. Akin to Old High German pidenchan (German bedenken), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌸𐌰𐌲𐌺𐌾𐌰𐌽 (biþagkjan), Dutch bedenken.

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