bewish

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English

Etymology

From be- +‎ wish.

Pronunciation

Verb

bewish (third-person singular simple present bewishes, present participle bewishing, simple past and past participle bewished)

  1. (transitive, rare) To confer, grant, or make a wish; wish.
    • 1862, Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, John Palgrave Simpson, King of the Merrows, Or, The Prince and the Piper:
      Och, murther! faix, some spell my pipe bewishes, I've played a wail and raised the little fishes.
    • 1876, William Barksted, The poems of William Barksted, ed. by A.B. Grosart - Page 72:
      Where litle babes fro windows were pusht down, Yong Ladies blotted with adulteries, Old fathers scourg'd with all base villanies ? O mourne her mine and bewish the Turke, etemall depriuation of his Crowne, [...]
    • 2006, Robert Julyan, The Mountains of New Mexico - Page 130:
      I could not bewish that the stars and stripes were wavering from its top.
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