becry

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becry

  • /bɪˈkɹaɪ/
  • /bəˈkɹaɪ/

Where it comes from

From Middle English becrien, equivalent to be- (“about, at, over, upon”) + cry.

verb becries · becrying · becried

  1. transitive To cry about; cry over; lament; bemourn. Wisdom, becried on either hand, will steer very nicely a middle course between these extremes; allowing here, forbidding there.
  2. transitive To accuse.
  3. transitive To bewitch.

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