Beamed vs Benamed - What's the difference?
beamed | benamed |
(beam)
Furnished with beams or timbers.
Furnished with beams, as the head of a stag.
* Sir Walter Scott
(bename)
(obsolete) To swear on oath; to solemnly declare; promise; give.
To name; give a name (to); mention by name; nominate; denominate; call.
:* "... the only British commander who, in the general estimation, could benamed as his rival in military fame; …'' — "The Annual Register" (edited by Edmund Burke), 1815
:* Unfortunately, the planet has been quite too much benamed''', — '''benamed , indeed, out of all recognition. — Percival Lowell, "Mars", 1896
:* As though the benamed things carried the longings of humans; — Mervyn Sprung, "After Truth: Explorations in Life Sense", SUNY Press, p71 1994
:* In other words, … that 'names' do not 'form' benamed objects but are mere signifiers … — Roy Ascott, "Engineering Nature: Art & Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era", Intellect Books, 2006
To name; call; style; describe as.
As verbs the difference between beamed and benamed
is that beamed is past tense of beam while benamed is past tense of bename.As an adjective beamed
is furnished with beams or timbers.beamed
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- a beamed ceiling
- Tost his beamed frontlet to the sky.