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† beˈwist(e, biwist(e Obs.
Also 1 biᵹwist, 3 biwest, buwist, beowust, beoust, bywist(e, -wyste.
[OE. ˈbíwist, fem., f. bi-, be- 1 + wist ‘being’ = OS., OHG., wist, Goth. wists:—OTeut. *wisti-z ‘being,’ f. wesan to be. ˈBíwist is the n. answering to a vb. *bi-ˈwesan; cf. Goth. bi-wisan to be together, to feast, make merry, f. bi-, be- 1 + wesan to be, remain. This word survived longest in the north; in later times the stress was shifted to the root-syllable, as in verbal be- compounds; cf. behote, beot, etc. With the senses cf. being.]
1. Food, provision, victual, a living.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xvii, He habban sceal þam þrym ᵹeferscipum biwiste. c1000ælfric Oswald in Saints' Lives (Sweet Reader 102/228) He wolde..him biᵹwiste syllan.
2. State or condition of life.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 133 Oðer [his] he[r] biwist. Ibid. 167 Þis holi man [Job] hadde þre biwistes. c1205Lay. 17809 Lauerd hu mid þe ? hu beoð þine beouste. a1300Cursor M. 13832 He hates to cum to vr bewist.
3. Abiding, dwelling, sojourn, living.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 149 Wumme..þat min biwist is teȝed here swo longe. a1225Ancr. R. 160 He was isuiled þuruh beouste [MS. T. ifuled þurh bewiste] among men.
4. Dwelling-place, abode, habitation.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 161 Ðis woreldes biwest is efned to wastene. c1325Metr. Hom. 69 To heuen, that bese thi beste bewyste. c1375Barbour St. Cristofore 269 Hame he passit til his bewist. ― St. Catharine 1118. |