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Definition of Bethought

Bethought
Bethought Be*thought", imp. & p. p. of Bethink.
Bethought
Bethink Be*think", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bethought; p. pr. & vb. n. Bethinking.] [AS. be?encan; pref. be- + ?encan to think. See Think.] To call to mind; to recall or bring to recollection, reflection, or consideration; to think; to consider; -- generally followed by a reflexive pronoun, often with of or that before the subject of thought. I have bethought me of another fault. --Shak. The rest . . . may . . . bethink themselves, and recover. --Milton. We bethink a means to break it off. --Shak. Syn: To recollect; remember; reflect.

Meaning of Bethought from wikipedia

- Lycian peasants Smyrna Iliad 24.603–610 : "[...] the fair-haired Niobe bethought her of meat, albeit twelve children perished in her halls, six daughters...
- affectionate gods whom the heathen love were being humbly invoked; so I bethought me, instead, of Sheol Nugganoth, whom the men of the jungle have long...
- when he wrote: "The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'This is mine', and found people simple enough to believe...
- Atman, verily one only, was here - no other blinking thing whatever; he bethought himself: let me now create worlds".(p294) This soul, which the text refers...
- eye on Little Musgrave, Hay downe As bright as the summer sun; And then bethought this Little Musgrave, This lady’s heart have I woonn. It seems that the...
- Mussorgsky, did disdain these things. I consider myself lucky that I bethought myself in time and forced myself to work. As for Balakirev, owing to his...
- pipe ascended into the air and spread like a cloud overhead. And Oloffe bethought him, and he hastened and climbed up to the top of one of the tallest trees...
- over old Khmer's glorious land. II Temples of stone, hidden amid forests Bethought of the mighty great kingdom triumphs Khmer race stands tough and solid...
- running about town shooting cats." And then in a sort of kindly reverie, he bethought himself of his own favourite cat, and said, "But Hodge shan't be shot;...
- and, finding a beam-comp**** of adequate length difficult to manage, I bethought me of an instrumental application of the geometrical truth that angles...