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- verb Present participle of
beclip . - noun obsolete An
embrace .
Etymologies
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From beclip.
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From Middle English *beclipping, *biclupping, from Old English beclypping ("embrace"), equivalent to beclip + -ing.
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Examples
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When the swan is in love he seeketh the female, and pleaseth her with beclipping of the neck, and draweth her to him - ward; and he joineth his neck to the female's neck, as it were binding the necks together.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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