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English
Etymology
From Middle English befinden, bifinden, equivalent to be- + find. Cognate with Saterland Frisian befiende (“to be located, befind”), Dutch bevinden (“to find”), German befinden (“to be, be located”), Swedish befinna (“to find, be”).
Verb
befind (third-person singular simple present befinds, present participle befinding, simple past and past participle befound)
- (transitive, archaic) To find; discover.
1898, Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, page 4:It is well that the thinker should give his thoughts to the world, though it must be admitted that wisdom befinds itself sometimes in the reverse of the sage's pronouncement.
1966, Johann Melchior Dinglinger, Joachim Menzhausen, At the court of the Great Mogul, page 52:Farther in the height befinds itself […]
2009, A. J. Marshall, The Bastion Prosecutor: Episode 3:Until after a full celestial epoch, the fairest place was befound and it was bequest them.
- (transitive, obsolete) To invent; contrive.
- (passive voice, obsolete) To be found; be.
Danish
Verb
befind
- imperative of befinde