BETHINK Definition & Meaning

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bethink

[ bih-thingk ]

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verb (used with object)

bethought, bethinking.

to think; consider (used reflexively):
He bethought himself a moment.
to remind (oneself ):
to bethink oneself of family obligations.
to remember; recall (used reflexively):
She lives in the past now, bethinking herself of happier days.
to determine; resolve:
Under the circumstances I could not otherwise bethink me.
Archaic. to bear in mind; remember.

verb (used without object)

bethought, bethinking.

Archaic. to consider; meditate.

bethink

/ ��ɪˈθɪŋ�� /

verb

to cause (oneself) to consider or meditate
troften foll byof to remind (oneself)

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of bethink¹

before 1000; Middle English bethenken, Old English bethencan. See be-, think ¹

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“Now. All night, I lay and I bethought myself—how to leave so I won’t be forgot? And behold.”

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In his Discourse on Inequality, he lamented "the first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying, 'This is mine,' and found people simple enough to believe him."

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Truly, truly, if they rightly bethink themselves and acknowledge the truth, I shall have them for witnesses that they are licking honey off thorns.

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I will go to him at once, Ella," he said; "and before my return you had better bethink you of what course you will pursue, in case your kinsman should not be with the Count.

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At length I bethought me of the fire, and taking a piece of charcoal I scrawled the words on the under side of my table.

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