bethink
[verb]
Synonyms: remember, cite, mind, recall, recollect, remind, reminisce, retain, retrospect, revive

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bethink verb. [bɪ'Ɵɪŋk] Pa. t. & pple bethought [bɪ'Ɵɔ:t].
[Old English biÞenćan = Old Frisian bithanka, bithenzia, Old Saxon biÞenkian, Old High German bidenken (Dutch, German bedenken), Gothic biÞagkjan, from Germanic, formed as BE- + THINK verb².]
I. verb trans.
1. Bear in mind; recall, recollect. Now only (arch.) with obj. clause. OE.

2. Think over; plan, arrange. ME-M17.

3. be bethought = branch II. ME-E17.

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bethink
II. verb refl.

4. Collect one's thoughts; take thought. OE-M17.

5. Reflect, stop to think, remind oneself. (Foll. by obj. clause (esp. indirect interrog.), as how; of, (up)on, to do.) ME.
■ W. Irving Rip bethought himself a moment.
■ A. Helps To bethink themselves how little they may owe to their own merit.
■ L. P. Hartley She bethought her of her duties as a hostess.

6. Resolve. (Foll. by of, that, to do.) arch. LME.
■ Shakespeare Julius Caesar It may be I shall otherwise bethink me.
■ J. Galsworthy He bethought him that he would go to the opera.

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bethink
III. verb intrans.

7. Consider, think. (Formerly foll. by of, (up)on.) arch. ME.
■ Byron Bethink ere thou dismiss us, ask again.

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