benew

present singular third person benews · participle present benewing · participle past benewed · past benewed

1. archaicTo make like new; renew; refresh.

   The youthful season's-wonted bloom Benews the beauty of each bow'r, And to the sweet-songed bird is come *Glad welcome from its darling flow'r,

   1822, “The Naturalist's Diary For April 1822”, in Time's Telescope, page 117

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   Thus far I have proceeded in a theme Benewed with no kind auspices:—to feel We are not what we have been, and to deem We are not what we should be, and to steel The heart against itself; and to conceal, - With a proud caution, love, or hate, or aught, — Passion or feeling, purpose, grief or zeal, — Which is the tyrant spirit of our though, Is a stern task of soul :— No matter, — it is taught.

   1826, George Gordon Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt, page 101

   We quitted it with the conviction that the grave could not be called “solitary,” while those the painter dearly loved benewed it with their tears (Art Union Journal for October).

   1846, The Church of England Magazine - Volume 20, page 23