different between belive vs begive

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?l?v'
• (UK) IPA^(key): /b??la?v/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b??la?v/

  Rhymes: -a?v

Etymology 1

From Middle English beliven, from Old English bel?fan (“to remain”), from Proto-Germanic *bil?ban? (“to remain”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to stick, glue”). Cognate with West Frisian bliuwe (“to stay”), Dutch blijven (“to remain”), German bleiben (“to remain”), Danish blive (“to be, remain”). More at leave.

Alternative forms

• bilive, blive
• bleve, bileve, bilave, blewe

Verb

belive (third-person singular simple present belives, present participle beliving, simple past belove, past participle beliven)

1. (intransitive, obsolete outside dialects) To remain, stay.
   • 1843 (original date: 1475), Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Tyrwhitt, The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer - Page 321:

     [...] God helpe me so, the best is thus to done. “Rise, let us speake of lustie life in Troy That we have lad, and forth the time drive, And eke of time coming us rejoy, That bringen shall our blisse now to blive, [...]"

   • 1900 (original date: 1483), Jacobus (de Voragine), William Caxton, Frederick Startridge Ellis, The golden legend, or, Lives of the saints:

     So there bleveth no more, but I that am servant to the spirit, may lie down and die. In which death I glorify myself, but I am greatly troubled in my mind, that my riches which I had ordained to God be wasted and spent in foul things.

Related terms

• belave (2)
• beleave

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English belive, bilife (“actively", literally, "by life”). More at by, life.

Alternative forms

• blive

Adverb

belive (comparative more belive, superlative most belive)

1. (obsolete outside Scotland) Quickly, forthwith.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.v:

     By that same way the direfull dames doe driue / Their mournefull charet, fild with rusty blood, / And downe to Plutoes house are come biliue [...].

2. (dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Soon, presently, before long; by and by; anon

Anagrams

• b'lieve, beveil, bevile

English

Etymology

From be- (“out, over, across”) +? give. Compare Dutch begeven (“to give up, forsake”), German begeben (“to issue, endow”), Danish begive (“to go”), Swedish begiva (“to proceed, start for, go”).

Verb

begive (third-person singular simple present begives, present participle begiving, simple past begave, past participle begiven)

1. (transitive) To give out; give of oneself; issue; endow; administer; transfer.
   • 2004, Communion, www.thewaystation.org/Communion.html:

     How am I begiving? To whom do I begive and why? What is the quality of my begiving? How willing am I to begive? How much? To what extent?

   • 2010, Chris Worth, Captain Jeans and the Quest for Keith, storywrite.com:

     Maria was forever to begive her begivings to the loathsome imposter who’s waddling skulk had haunted her. Thus life nourishes death and as the witch died so did she.

Derived terms

• begiving

Related terms

• begift