bethink
[bih-thingk]
verb (used with object), be·thought, be·think·ing.
to think; consider (used reflexively): He bethought himself a moment.
to remind (oneself): to bethink oneself of family obligations.
to remember; recall (used reflexively): She lives in the past now, bethinking herself of happier days.
to determine; resolve: Under the circumstances I could not otherwise bethink me.
Archaic. to bear in mind; remember.
verb (used without object), be·thought, be·think·ing.
Archaic. to consider; meditate.
Origin of bethink
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Historical Examples of bethink
Might he not bethink himself, and come again, and say he was sorry he had so left her?
Weighed and WantingGeorge MacDonald
But stay, now I bethink me, there is one thing reckoned not upon—the priest.
The Merry Adventures of Robin HoodHoward Pyle
Be it so; only, bethink you that one of us will infallibly be killed.
A Hero of Our TimeM. Y. Lermontov
But bethink you of them, and you will unriddle them for yourself, perhaps.
Bardelys the MagnificentRafael Sabatini
Yet that course seemed no less futile than any other of which I could bethink me.
Bardelys the MagnificentRafael Sabatini
bethink
verb -thinks, -thinking or -thought archaic, or dialect
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