Bewrite
Origin
From Middle English bewriten, from Old English bewrītan ("to write, record, copy"), equivalent to -("about, over") + write. Compare Dutch beschrijven ("to describe"), German beschreiben ("to describe"), Swedish beskriva ("to describe").
Full definition of bewrite
Verb
- (transitive) To write about; describe.
- 1838, The Yale literary magazine: Volume 3:I vow and purpose, here in the presence of " Billy Shakspeare," to bewrite 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 to bewrite: ...
- 1926, Blanche Colton Williams, Best American stories:"I said it was a pleasureful thing to be thus bewritten upward. ..."
- 2011, The history of the Chronoswiss brand can only reach:This harvesting bewrites 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 I bewrote 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, ...