beselve

present singular third person beselves · participle present beselving · participle past beselved · past beselved

1. transitiveTo endow with a personhood or self.

   In Deleuzian terms, the self—beselved body—is a contour map on which are charted the exhilarating lines of desire.

   2012, Paul C. Martin, The Feminine in the Making of God: Highlighting the Sensible Topography of Divinity

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   One can say "That individual is angry," or "Mr. X is angry," but never "The self is angry." Even though, to be sure, anger involves having a self; it pertains to X as "beselved." We agree with common usage.

   1968, Mariane L. Simmel, Kurt Goldstein, The Reach of mind: essays in memory of Kurt Goldstein

   The mouth is always available for service; the breast is not. So the anticipation is breastdirected. The beselved body in fact lives more outside its literal Habit.

   1992, Brian Massumi, A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia

   Two new words are needed, “enworlded” and “beselved.” To be enworlded is to be beselved. To be beside yourself is to be fully conscious.

   2012, dao nguyen