bestir

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Here, Gregory, Dickon--bestir yourselves, knaves, and pour forth a cup of sack for each of these dames.

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  1. transitive verb To cause to become active; rouse: finally bestirred himself to look for work.

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  1. Middle English bistiren : probably bi-, be- + stiren, to rouse; see stir1.

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  1. from Middle English bestyrien, bestirien, besterien, bestir, from Anglo-Saxon bestyrian, heap up, pile up, from be- + styrian, stir: see be- and stir.
 

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/bəˈstər/
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