bewish

present singular third person bewishes · participle present bewishing · participle past bewished · past bewished

1. raretransitiveTo confer, grant, or make a wish; wish.

   I could not bewish that the stars and stripes were wavering from its top.

   2006, Robert Julyan, The Mountains of New Mexico - Page 130

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   Och, murther! faix, some spell my pipe bewishes, I've played a wail and raised the little fishes.

   1862, Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, John Palgrave Simpson, King of the Merrows, Or, The Prince and the Piper

   Where litle babes fro windows were pusht down, Yong Ladies blotted with adulteries, Old fathers scourg'd with all base villanies ? O mourne her mine and bewish the Turke, etemall depriuation of his Crowne, [...]

   1876, William Barksted, The poems of William Barksted, ed. by A.B. Grosart - Page 72