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beswore

beswore is the simple past of beswear.

Meaning of beswear

Verb

beswear (third-person singular simple present beswears, present participle beswearing, simple past beswore, past participle besworn)

  1. (transitive) To swear by; swear about or regarding; swear at or to; promise
    • Some masters of the art take a pure child and set him in their lap, then lift his hand up and let him look into his nail, and beswear the child and the nail with a great adjuration, and then speak in the child's ear three unknown words, whereof one is Oriel, the others I withhold for fear of...1888, Teutonic mythology, Jacob Grimm, James Steven Stallybrass, tr. by J.S. Stallybrass - Volume 4

Questions about beswore

What is beswore the simple past of?
Beswore is the simple past of beswear.

Words near beswore in the dictionary

  1. Beswick
  2. Beswicks
  3. beswinge
  4. beswink
  5. beswinking
  6. beswore
  7. besworn
  8. besyde
  9. besyl
  10. besylate
  11. besylates

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