benim

present singular third person benims · participle present benimming · past benam · participle past benomen · participle past benome · participle past benumb · alternative obsolete benimme · alternative obsolete benime · alternative obsolete benymme · alternative obsolete bynemme

1. obsoletetransitiveTo take away; rob; deprive; ravishFirst known use 10th–16th c.

   Benombe of ones lymbes […] […] He is now benomme of his lymmes.

   1530, John Palsgrave, (Please provide the book title or journal name)

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   And on the right hand were two flowers like a lily, and the one would have benome the others whiteness, but a good man departed them that the one touched not the other; and then out of every flower came out many flowers, and fruit great plenty.

   1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “viij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVI

   Alas ! it benimeth from man his wit and his reason, and all his debonaire life spiritual that should keep his soul. Certes it benimeth also God's due lordship (and that is man's soul) and the love of his neighbours : […]

   1876, Henry Morley, “Illustrations of English religion”, in Chaucer

   To visit I should much prefer Some sick but wealthy usurer : With patience would I comfort him, In hope some deniers to benimme, And when pale death steals o'er his face, Transport him to the burial-place.

   1900, Guillaume (de Lorris), Jean de Meun, Frederick Startridge Ellis, The Romance of the Rose - Volume 2

   […] by his name maketh clepe him and name him Rude Intendment hath made him an espier of ways and a waiter [waylayer] of pilgrims and will benim [rob] them their burdons and unscrip them of their scrips, beguiling them with lying words.

   1963, William Matthews, Later medieval English prose