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English
Etymology
From be- + gather. Cognate with Middle Dutch begaderen.
Verb
begather (third-person singular simple present begathers, present participle begathering, simple past and past participle begathered)
- (transitive, intransitive) To gather about; gather round; assemble.
1907, Edward Hardingham, Lays and legends of the forest of Essex:Their horrible glee The phantoms forsaking, about her chill form Loud mocking begather! Yet fiercer the storm Shocks onward terrific — A thunderbolt falls! — Oaks crash down heart-shatter'd!
1989, Lynn Lonidier, Clitoris lost:Your birthday was in the drying and browning month of my mother's death. I took how Summer tossed your heart at me and made a cornucopia of a snake, my crown. Snake's tongue begathers Winter's sway.
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