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▪ I. belove, v.|bɪˈlʌv|
Forms: 2–3 biluuien, biluuen, bilouen, 3 bileouen, bilufen, 4–5 bi-, bylove, 6 beloue, Sc. beluve, 5– belove.
[ME. biluven, -loven, f. bi-, be- 2 + luven, loven to love. Cf. mod.G. belieben and Du. believen, both usually impersonal.]
†1. intr. To please, be pleasing (to a person).
c1205Lay. 989 Ȝif hit eow biloueð..fare we from þisse londe. a1225Juliana 24 Ȝef me sua biluuede hit were sone. a1240Sawles Warde in Cott. Hom. 259 Wel us biluueð hit.
†2. trans. To be pleased with, approve, like. Obs.
c1205Lay. 1013 Alle hit bi-luueden. Ibid. 19121 Al þat leodliche folc bilufde þesne ilke ræd.
3. To love. Now only in pass. Const. with (obs.), of (arch., poet.), by.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. iii. 211 Mede maketh hym bi-loued. 1481Caxton Reynard (Arb.) 118 The money is better byloued than God. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 521 Quhilk with the king all tyme wes best belude. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. i. i. 104, I am belou'd of beauteous Hermia. 1604T. Wright Passions v. §4. 212 Those persons cannot but bee accounted hard hearted..who belove not them of whom they are loved. 1623J. Wodroephe Marrow Fr. Tongue 322, I would wear it about my neck for a certain testimony that I belove it much. 1818Byron Mazeppa vii, I loved, and was beloved again. 1825Southey Paraguay ii. 10 Beloving and beloved she grew, a happy child. 1871R. Ellis Catullus viii. 5 By me belov'd as maiden is belov'd no more.
▪ II. † beˈlove, n. Obs. rare—1.
[f. prec.: cf. love n.1]
= beloved n.
1546Bale Eng. Votaries i. (1550) 48 Only Lieba and Tecla ij Englysh nonnes his best beloues. |