beclip

present singular third person beclips · participle present beclipping · participle past beclipped · past beclipped

1. obsoletetransitiveTo fold in the arms; embrace; clasp.

   At the coming of Jupiter many Tears were wept for joy, by Dame Cibel and Vesc. Cibel kist and beclipt oftentimes her Son;

   1702, Raoul Lefèvre, The Destruction of Troy

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   Which thing was told to the king by the same Hulin, and anon the king had pity on the poor man, and disdained not, but took him on his shoulders and bare him, whom the cripple beclipped with his foul and scabby hands and arms, and so, n the bearing, his sinews loosed and were reached out.

   1900, Jacobus (de Voragine) William Caxton, Frederick Startridge Ellis, The Golden Legend: Or, Lives of the Saints - Volume 4, page 15

   After the kiss in the Mass, when the priest consecrates, there forget all the world and there be altogether out of the body; there in sparkling love beclip our beloved that into our breast's bower is alighted out of heaven, and hold him fast till he hath granted all that ever you will.

   1927, David Knowles, The English Mystics, page 71

2. transitiveTo wrap around; enclose; encircle; surround.
3. obsoletetransitiveTo include; comprise; comprehend; contain.
4. obsoletetransitiveTo lay hold of; seize upon; grip; catch; overtake.
5. obsoletetransitiveTo curdle (milk).

present singular third person beclips · participle present beclipping · participle past beclipped · past beclipped

1. transitiveTo clip around or about (the edges of); crop.

   beclip a photograph