bethink
verb (used with object)
to think; consider (used reflexively).
bethinks
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present tense formof bethink (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Then the doctor bethinks himself of ultraviolet rays.
From Time Magazine Archive
It meditates no question of political economy or of trade, but bethinks it how streets are best defended, and how towns are fortified against themselves.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
He bethinks him that the man with the brass-plate was to land on this villainous bank, and for that cause, if no other, begins to suspect him.
From The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
The president bethinks himself of a "patriot" architect, Citizen Palloy, who generally makes his appearance whenever there are "patriotic" demolitions to be accomplished.
From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand
D'Artagnan takes his advice; bethinks him of the three mousquetaires, and sets out to look for them.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various
