bedaw
English
Etymology
From Middle English bedauen, bedaghen (“to become day, dawn”), equivalent to be- + daw (“to dawn”).
Verb
bedaw (third-person singular simple present bedaws, present participle bedawing, simple past and past participle bedawed)
- (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To awake.
- 1857, original 1390, John Gower, Confessio Amantis, or Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins:
- That one halt and that other draweth, There is no day which hem bedaweth, […]
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