Meanings
present singular third person bewrites · participle present bewriting · past bewrote · participle past bewritten
- transitiveTo write about; describe.
"I said it was a pleasureful thing to be thus bewritten upward. [...]"
1926, Blanche Colton Williams, Best American stories3 more examples
I vow and purpose, here in the presence of " Billy Shakspeare," to bewrite this ill-starred foolscap!!
1838, The Yale literary magazine, volume 3I humbly beg of you, for God's sake and your own, to read what I here presume to bewrite: [...]
1878, Philip Dwyer, The Diocese of Killaloe from the Reformation to the close of the Eighteenth centuryThis harvesting bewrites the unhealable Monogrammed Beach Towels of affair and assenting a brew-house.
2011, The history of the Chronoswiss brand can only reach - transitiveTo write to.
After I bewrote thee yesterday Mrs. Neville drove Lady Charlotte, young Bagot (Clerk) and self into Glastonbury.
1905, Charles Hallam Elton Brookfield, Frances Mary Brookfield, Mrs. Brookfield and her circle: Volume 1 - transitiveTo write; write from; copy.
And it was in just one of these accessions of strength, (which after all, I count only as seductive illusions,) that I found myself with pen and paper, bewriting page after page — sketching men and scenes that I thought you would be glad to see, [...]
1850, Donald Grant Mitchell, The battle summer
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Proto-West Germanic*biwrītan“to write down; write about”
- Old Englishbewrītan“to write, record, copy”
- Middle Englishbewriten
- Englishbewrite
From Middle English bewriten, from Old English bewrītan (“to write, record, copy”), from Proto-West Germanic *biwrītan (“to write down; write about”), equivalent to be- (“about, over”) + write. Cognate with Old Frisian biwrīta (“to write down”), Middle Low German bewriten (“to engrave; to pronounce a blessing”), German bereiẞen (“to scale something by hand, carry out manually”). Compare also Dutch beschrijven (“to describe”), German beschreiben (“to describe”), Swedish beskriva (“to describe”).
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