† beˈteach, v. Obs.
Forms: inf. 1 betǽcan, 2 -en, 3 bitæchen, -teachen, 3–4 biteche(n, 3–5 biteche, 4 byteche, beteiche, -teyche, 5 beteche, 6 Sc. beteiche, 7 beteach. pa. tense 1 betǽhte, 2 betahte, -tehte (-tohte, -tacte), 2–4 bitaht(e, -hhte, -ȝte, 3 biteihte, 3–5 bi-, by-, betaght(e, -ȝt(e, (4 bitahut, biteched), 4–5 bi-, by-, betauȝt(e, -ht(e, -ght(e, -wght, -wt, 4–6 Sc. betaucht, -wcht, 7 beteached. pa. pple. analogous to pa. tense.
[OE. betǽc(e)an, f. be- 2 + tǽc(e)an to show (:—OTeut. type *taikjan, from same root as *taikno-, OE. tácn token). Cf. betake.]
1. trans. To show, point out.
| c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Luke xxii. 12 And he eow betæcð mycele healle gedæfte. |
2. To hand over, deliver, give up, yield. Const. with dat., or to, till, unto.
| a 1000 ælfric Colloquy ¶21 Ic betæce hiᵹ ðam yrthlincge. c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Luke i. 2 Swa us betæhtun ða þe hyt of frymðe ᵹesáwon. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 11 Drihten him bitahte twa stanene tables breode. c 1175 Cott. Hom. 221 Alle hi beoð þe betéhte. a 1225 Ancr. R. 300, I chulle ower foes lond bitechen in his honden. a 1300 Cursor M. 3539 Þe mete mi moder me bi-taght. 1375 Barbour Bruce i. 610 The king betaucht hym in that steid The Endentur. c 1400 Mandeville v. 63 That is the Place where oure Lord be⁓taughten the Ten Comandementes to Moyses. 1513 Douglas æneis xi. xi. 124 To ane onhappy chance betaucht is sche. |
3. To hand over as a trust; to entrust, commit, give in charge to.
| c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Matt. xxv. 15 [He] betǽhte hym hys æhta. 1160 Hatton G. ibid., Betacte [v.r. betahte]. c 1205 Lay. 11503 Ich him wulle bitæchen [c 1250 bi-teche] mine kine-riche. a 1300 Cursor M. 4254 Þe wardeinscipp of al his aght Has putifar ioseph bi-taght [v.r. betaȝt, bitauȝt]. c 1425 Seven Sag. (P.) 324 The emperour..byddis ȝow..bryng with ȝow his son dere, That he betauȝt ȝow to lere. 1513 Douglas æneis ii. xii. [xi.] 113 Our Troiane Goddis..Onto my feris betawcht I, for to keip. |
4. To commit or commend (one), by the expression of a wish, to (God, the devil, etc.). As a formula of leave-taking: To bid adieu or good-bye.
| c 1314 Guy Warw. (A) 1248 Fader, god y þe biteche And mi leue moder al-so; For hastiliche ichil nov go. c 1330 Amis & Amil. 328 Aither bitaught other heuen king And went in her iurnè. 1375 Barbour Bruce xv. 538 Quhen wiffis vald thar childir ban Thai wald..Beteche thame to the blak douglass. c 1386 Chaucer Melib. Prol. 6 Now swich a Rym the deuel I biteche. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. (1856) III. 65 Beteichand hir to him that bocht ws deir. 1685 G. Sinclair in R. Law Memor. (1818) 124 He beteached himself strongly to God. |
b. Hence, by confusion, to beteach one good day: to wish or bid one good day.
| c 1400 Gamelyn 338 Whan his gestes took her leue..[they] bitaughte Gamelyn god & good day. a 1440 Ipomydon 568 They toke leve..And bytaught the lady gode day. a 1500 Kyng & Hermit 513 in Hazl. E.P.P. 33 Ather betauȝt other gode dey. |
5. To allot, assign.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 400 Þe fuxol [? fuȝol] be-taght he to þe wind. Ibid. 5412 (Trin.) Þat was bitauȝte prestes to fede. |
6. To teach, instruct.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 15669 Quen he ha þus-gat þam bi-taght, stil he left þam þare. c 1435 Torr. Portugal 1664 He is of the deville betaught. |
7. in pa. pple. Related.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 13222 Of hei oxspring þan es þis ion..Nere be-taght to mild mari. |