FromMiddle Englishbewriten, fromOld Englishbewrītan(“to write, record, copy”), fromProto-West Germanic*biwrītan(“to write down; write about”), equivalent tobe-(“about, over”) +write. Cognate withOld Frisianbiwrīta(“to write down”),Middle Low Germanbewriten(“to engrave; to pronounce a blessing”),Germanbereiẞen(“to scale something by hand, carry out manually”). Compare alsoDutchbeschrijven(“to describe”),Germanbeschreiben(“to describe”),Swedishbeskriva(“to describe”).
bewrite (third-person singular simple presentbewrites,present participlebewriting,simple pastbewrote,past participlebewritten)
- (transitive) Towrite about;describe.
1838,The Yale literary magazine, volume 3:I vow and purpose, here in the presence of " Billy Shakspeare," tobewrite this ill-starred foolscap!!
1878, Philip Dwyer,The Diocese of Killaloe from the Reformation to the close of the Eighteenth century:I humbly beg of you, for God's sake and your own, to read what I here presume tobewrite: [...]
1926, Blanche Colton Williams,Best American stories:"I said it was a pleasureful thing to be thusbewritten upward. [...]"
- 2011, The history of the Chronoswiss brand can only reach:
- This harvestingbewrites the unhealable Monogrammed Beach Towels of affair and assenting a brew-house.
- (transitive) To write to.
1905, Charles Hallam Elton Brookfield, Frances Mary Brookfield,Mrs. Brookfield and her circle: Volume 1:After Ibewrote thee yesterday Mrs. Neville drove Lady Charlotte, young Bagot (Clerk) and self into Glastonbury.
- (transitive) To write; write from;copy.
1850, Donald Grant Mitchell,The battle summer::And it was in just one of these accessions of strength, (which after all, I count only as seductive illusions,) that I found myself with pen and paper,bewriting page after page — sketching men and scenes that I thought you would be glad to see, [...]
