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  • verb Archaic second-person singular simple past form of begin

Etymologies

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began +‎ -st

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Examples

  • What is youth, but an untamed beast? all whose actions are rash and rude, not capable of good counsel, when it is given; and, ape-like, delighting in nothing but in toys and babies? therefore thou no sooner beganst to have a little strength and discretion, but forthwith thou wast kept under the rod, and fear of parents and masters; as if thou hadst been born to live under the discipline of others, rather than at the disposition of thine own will.

    The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842

  • 41 The woman whom thou sawest mourning, thou beganst to comfort her.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

  • 49 And behold, thou hast seene the similitude of her: and because she lamented her sonne, thou beganst to comfort her: and of these thinges that haue chanced, these were to be opened to thee.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

  • 49 And behold, thou hast seene the similitude of her: and because she lamented her sonne, thou beganst to comfort her: and of these thinges that haue chanced, these were to be opened to thee.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2 Anonymous

  • 41 The woman whom thou sawest mourning, thou beganst to comfort her.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2 Anonymous

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