bewrite

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To write about; describe. transitive
    — I vow and purpose, here in the presence of " Billy Shakspeare," to bewrite this ill-starred foolscap!!
  2. To write to. transitive
    — After I bewrote thee yesterday Mrs. Neville drove Lady Charlotte, young Bagot (Clerk) and self into Glastonbury.
  3. To write; write from; copy. transitive
    — 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, [...]

词形变化

bewrites present,singular,third-person bewriting participle,present bewrote past bewritten participle,past

词汇关系

衍生词
bewriting bewritten

词源

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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