Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Preterit of
betake and beteach.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Delivered; committed in trust.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
beteach .
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Examples
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And on the morn he took his leave, and told the king that he would go and seek his brother Sir Lionel, that went from him when that he slept, so he took his horse, and betaught them all to God.
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And on the morn Sir Gawaine departed from the hermit, and betaught him unto God.
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Sir Launcelot, I understand to whom this castle longeth; and so he departed from them, and betaught them unto God.
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Now departed Galahad from thence, and betaught them all unto
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Now departed Galahad from thence, and betaught them all unto God.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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And on the morn Sir Gawaine departed from the hermit, and betaught him unto God.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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And on the morn Sir Gawaine departed from the hermit, and betaught him unto God.
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Well, said Sir Launcelot, I understand to whom this castle longeth; and so he departed from them, and betaught them unto God.
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And on the morn he took his leave, and told the king that he would go and seek his brother Sir Lionel, that went from him when that he slept, so he took his horse, and betaught them all to God.
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And so he departed from them and betaught them unto God.
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