Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To embrace; clasp.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To embrace; to surround.
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- verb transitive, obsolete To
fold in the arms;embrace ;clasp . - verb transitive To
wrap around;enclose ;encircle ;surround . - verb transitive, obsolete To
include ;comprise ;comprehend ;contain . - verb transitive, obsolete To lay hold of;
seize upon;grip ;catch ;overtake . - verb transitive, obsolete To
curdle (milk). - verb transitive To
clip around or about (the edges of);crop .
Etymologies
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From Middle English beclippen, from Old English beclyppan ("to clip, clasp, embrace, enfold"), from Proto-Germanic *bi- (“be-”), *klupjanan (“to hold, clench”), from Proto-Indo-European *glēb-, *glēp- (“to hold, clench”), equivalent to be- + clip. Compare also Middle English umbeclippen ("to embrace"). More at umbeclip.
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From be- + clip.
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Examples
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The ends of the liver hight fibra, for they are straight and passing as tongs, and beclip the stomach, and give heat to digestion of meat: and they hight fibra, because the necromancers brought them to the altars of their god Phoebus and offered them there, and then they had answers.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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