beclap

present singular third person beclaps · participle present beclapping · participle past beclapped · past beclapped · alternative obsolete beclapp

1. To grasp, insnare, ensnare, catch, to trap suddenly, to grab suddenly.

   He so besmouched her, and she so beclapped him, and there tumbling together, as merrie as they would wish, I sighed to thinke, what a supper they would haue after break-fast.

   1605, Tourneur, Worldes Folly

present singular third person beclaps · participle present beclapping · participle past beclapped · past beclapped · alternative obsolete beclapp

1. To clap for; to applaud.

   He who has loved quiet, who has so long shunned publicity, must school himself to be cheered and beclapped and huzzaed by thousands every time he lets himself be seen.

   1903, in New outlook (Alfred Emanuel Smith), volume 74, page 936

   2 more examples

   No one is so beclapped as the author of a popular drama bowing over his own footlights; the artists and romancers of the daily press are modester than they themselves would be willing to admit.

   1886, The Nation, volume 43, page 414

   In the course of his table-talk, during the French war, the ex-chancellor once remarked that, though the Prussian people huzza'd and beclapped their great Frederick when alive, […]

   1891, Littell's living age, volume 191, page 260

   Synonyms: acclaim, cheer on, hurrah, acclaim, acclamate, applaud, hail, barrack