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bedwell en · VERB

Etymology

From be- (“around, about”) + dwell. Compare Middle Dutch bedwellen.

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To dwell around or about (a place); inhabit.
   • Gentry of narrow income used to bedwell Montreuil; they are gone, war, want or death knows where. 1843, Robert Southey, Sir Walter Scott, A memoir of the life and writings of the late William Taylor:
   • [...] At first like a twilight cloud, Yet momently clearer in colour, I saw church-domes and steeples, And lastly a whole city, Ancient-looking, Netherlandish, Man-bedwelt in. 1841, Alexander Crawford Lindsay Crawford (Earl of), Ballads, songs and poems:
   • Even as he looks squarely at calculable nature, he "retrieves readily be seen to be involved in the reference to "that which announces itself in the processes and conditions of nature that pervasively rule the world we bedwell." 1995, William Lovitt, Harriet Brundage Lovitt, Modern technology in the Heideggerian perspective:

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