Etymology

From be- +‎ gatherCategory:English terms prefixed with be-#GATHER. Cognate with Middle Dutch begaderen.

Verb

begather (third-person singular simple present begathers, present participle begathering, simple past and past participle begathered)Category:English lemmas#BEGATHERCategory:English verbs#BEGATHERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BEGATHERCategory:Pages with entries#BEGATHERCategory:Pages with 1 entry#BEGATHER

1. (ambitransitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#BEGATHERCategory:English intransitive verbs#BEGATHER) 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!

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   • 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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Anagrams

• berthage, haberget