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Definition of Beknave
1. v. t. To call knave.
Definition of Beknave
1. Verb. (transitive rare) To treat as a knave. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive rare) To call (someone) a knave. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Beknave
1. to treat as a knave [v BEKNAVED, BEKNAVING, BEKNAVES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beknave
Literary usage of Beknave
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1833)
"... or beknave all his predecessors. There is in Mr. Austin's remarks on this most
hackneyed subject of self-love, evidence of his having digested the ..."
2. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by William Carew Hazlitt, Robert Dodsley (1874)
"Do ye nick us 13 beknave your noly!— INIQUITY. Ten mine— ISMAEL (casteth dice).
Six mine, Have at it, and it were for all my father's kine. ..."
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