beknavev.
/bɪˈneɪv/ transitive. To treat as a knave, to call ‘knave’.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > abuse [verb (transitive)] > call names > specific
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a1529 J. Skelton Poems against Garnesche in Poet Wks. (1843) I. 116 So currysly to beknaue me in the kynges place.
1539 R. Taverner Second Bk. Garden of Wysdome sig. B.viii Some we call pharisees, we beknaue, we defye as naughtie papistes.
a1744 A. Pope Suppl. Wks. (1757) 96 May Satire ne'er befool ye, or beknave ye.
1876 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §1 Beknaved by the King.
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