Bewrite

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To write about; describe. transitive

    "I vow and purpose, here in the presence of " Billy Shakspeare," to bewrite this ill-starred foolscap!!"

  2. 2
    To write to. transitive

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

  3. 3
    To write; write from; copy. transitive

    "And it was in just one of these accessions of strength, (which after all, I count only as seductive illusions,) that I found myself with pen and paper, bewriting page after page — sketching men and scenes that I thought you would be glad to see, [...]"

Synonyms

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describedescribe

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"I vow and purpose, here in the presence of " Billy Shakspeare," to bewrite this ill-starred foolscap!!"

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”).

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