bethink
verb (used with object)
to think; consider (used reflexively).
has bethought
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present perfectof bethink (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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If she writes to you otherwise than as I shall dictate; if she does not, when she has bethought herself, break with you once and forever,—all's over between us!
From Lewis Rand by Mary Johnston
Is this boy of Nazareth the first who has bethought him of playing the part of a Messiah?
From The Silver Cross or The Carpenter of Nazareth by Eugène Sue
The Prince has bethought himself to pay me for my kindness to him.
From King Arthur's Socks and Other Village Plays by Floyd Dell
A miller has bethought him of putting the brook, which used to flow so gaily through the fields, to work.
From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
