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be-wǽfan

  • verb [ weak ]
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Grammar
be-wǽfan, p. de; pp. ed [wǽfan to cover]
To befold, wrap round, cover, clothe; obvolvere, amicire, operire, induere
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  • Mid ánre scýtan bewǽfed

    amictus sindone,

      Mk. Bos. 14, 51 : Homl. Th. ii. 242, 24.
  • Heó nam hyre wǽfels and bewǽfde híg

    illa sustulit pallium et operuit se,

      Gen. 24, 65.
  • Martinus me bewǽfde mid ðyssere wǽde

    Martin clothed me with this garment,

      Homl. Th. ii. 500, 34.
  • His cempan mid wolcnreádum wǽfelse hine bewǽfdon

    his soldiers clothed him in a scarlet robe,

    ii.
      252, 25.
  • Ic eom réáde bewǽfed

    I am clothed with red,

      Exon. 126 a; Th. 484. 2; Rä. 70, 1 : Past. 14, 3; Hat. MS. 17 b, 19.
Etymology
[Goth. bi-wáibyan to wind, put round.]
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