† behatev.
Obsolete.
transitive. To hold in hatred, to hate greatly, detest.
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the mind > emotion > hatred > [adjective] > that is hated
yhated1297
behatec1374
odiousa1382
hateda1400
loatheda1420
abominate1531
abhorred1533
detested1552
odious1560
abominated1620
nauseated1652
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iii. iv. 75 Al was he byhated of all folk.
c1460 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Laud) l. 11962 Why he makyth vs ffor his maners by-hatid [Trin. Cambr. be hated] þus.
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. iii. 105 He was sore behated.
1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande vi. f. 20/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Through false informations wrongfully behated.
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