different between begrip vs bedrip

English

Etymology

From be- +? grip. Compare begripe.

Verb

begrip (third-person singular simple present begrips, present participle begripping, simple past and past participle begripped)

1. (transitive) To grip around or about; get a grip on; grasp.
   • 1911, William Morris, May Morris, The Collected Works of William Morris:

     Then the girdled hilt seiz'd he, the Wolf of the Scyldings, The rough and the sword-grim, and drew forth the ring-sword, Naught weening of life, and wrathful he smote then So that there on her halse the hard edge begripped, [...]

   • 1913, Archibald Allan, Space and personality:

     They try to begrip by conceptions that which no conception can grasp save when conception is full-open with consciousness, and identical with it.

   • 1913, George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken, The smart set: a magazine of cleverness:

     Then parted Frowin and Garnum, and, hands begripped, they solemnly repeated the foster-brother oath: "Thy kin will I protect; thy honor will I guard. Parted or together, when thou diest then will I die also: [...]

   • 2002, Christine Chism, Alliterative Revivals:

     A blissful/blessed body, arrayed in a rich manner in royal garments: all with glistening gold his gown was hemmed, with many a precious pearl placed thereon, and a girdle of gold begripped his waist; a great mantle was over that, [...]

   • 2012, Wilyem Clark, Steadfast:

     He came to be known as Peritus because he seemed expert at every task he begripped him.

Synonyms

• clasp, clutch, grasp; See also Thesaurus:grasp

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch begrip, from Middle Dutch begrip, from Old Dutch *bigrip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b???r?p/

Noun

begrip (plural begrippe)

1. notion, concept, term
2. understanding, comprehension
3. understanding, empathy

Derived terms

• begripsraamwerk

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch begrip, from Old Dutch *bigrip. Formed based on begrijpen from the original nominative form of greep.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b???r?p/
• Hyphenation: be?grip
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

begrip n (plural begrippen, diminutive begripje n)

1. understanding, comprehension

   Synonym: onbegrip

2. understanding, empathy

3. notion, concept, term

4. institution (well-known entity)

Derived terms

• begrippenkader

Related terms

• begrijpelijk
• begrijpen

Descendants

• Afrikaans: begrip

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

begrip

1. imperative of begripe

Swedish

Verb

begrip

1. imperative of begripa.

English

Etymology 1

From be- (“on, about, all over”) +? drip.

Verb

bedrip (third-person singular simple present bedrips, present participle bedripping, simple past and past participle bedripped)

1. (intransitive) To drip about or all over; drip onto (something).
   • 1851, Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt, Richard Waddington (translator.), The morning-land:

     Wine shall break in sparkles o'er our lips bedripping; We are wise, and know we're by it gladden'd!

   • 1862, Poems from the German:

     But in that dark camp was a dauntless Emir, A levin of battle, they call'd him Zobir, In irefullest mood, His rattling spurs all bedripping with blood, He sped to his leader, and cried, "Thou essayest, Abdallah, the battle no more! […] "

Etymology 2

From Middle English bedrip, from Old English bedr?p (“compulsory service rendered to a landowner at harvest time, the reaping of corn on request”), from a compound of bed (“prayer, supplication, religious ordinance, service”) + r?p (“reaping, harvest”). More at bead, reap.

Alternative forms

• bederup (Ireland)
• bederepe, bidrepe (obsolete)

Noun

bedrip (plural bedrips)

1. (Britain dialectal) A band of harvesters.
2. (Britain dialectal) A crowd.

Anagrams

• prebid

Middle English

Alternative forms

• bederip, bedrep, bederp

Etymology

From Old English bedr?p, equivalent to bede (“request”) +? ripe (“reaping”)

Noun

bedrip (plural bedrips)

1. A day of reaping demanded from tenants by their feudal lord
2. (usually attributive) Something given as a substitute for reaping.
3. (rare) An individual obligated to perform this reaping.

Descendants

• English: bedrip
• Yola: bederup

References

• “bed-r??p(e, b??d-, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.