Helen Fenton

Beguinage: Definition and part of speech

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Beguinage

  1. n. A collection of small houses surrounded by a wall and occupied by a community of Beguines.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Beguine: Definition and part of speech

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Beguine

  1. n. A woman belonging to one of the religious and charitable associations or communities in the Netherlands, and elsewhere, whose members live in beguinages and are not bound by perpetual vows.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Behave: Definition and part of speech

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Behave

  1. v. i. To act; to conduct; to bear or carry one’s self; as, to behave well or ill.
  2. v. t. To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.
  3. v. t. To carry; to conduct; to comport; to manage; to bear; — used reflexively.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.