begrip

present singular third person begrips · participle present begripping · participle past begripped · past begripped

1. transitiveTo grip around or about; get a grip on; grasp.

   He came to be known as Peritus because he seemed expert at every task he begripped him.

   2012, Wilyem Clark, Steadfast

   4 more examples

   Then the girdled hilt seiz'd he, the Wolf of the Scyldings, The rough and the sword-grim, and drew forth the ring-sword, Naught weening of life, and wrathful he smote then So that there on her halse the hard edge begripped, [...]

   1911, William Morris, May Morris, The Collected Works of William Morris

   They try to begrip by conceptions that which no conception can grasp save when conception is full-open with consciousness, and identical with it.

   1913, Archibald Allan, Space and personality

   Then parted Frowin and Garnum, and, hands begripped, they solemnly repeated the foster-brother oath: "Thy kin will I protect; thy honor will I guard. Parted or together, when thou diest then will I die also: [...]

   1913, George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken, The smart set: a magazine of cleverness

   A blissful/blessed body, arrayed in a rich manner in royal garments: all with glistening gold his gown was hemmed, with many a precious pearl placed thereon, and a girdle of gold begripped his waist; a great mantle was over that, [...]

   2002, Christine Chism, Alliterative Revivals

   Synonyms: clasp, clutch, grasp