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Belirt vs Begirt - What's the difference?

belirt | begirt |

As verbs the difference between belirt and begirt

is that belirt is to deceive; beguile while begirt is (obsolete) to surround or enclose.

belirt

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To deceive; beguile.
  • To cheat; befool.
  • begirt

    English

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To surround or enclose
  • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=5 , and now I had him every way encircled and begirt ; and having drawn him home to me, I kept him fast there, as if I had sought to unite bodies with him at that point. }}
  • * 1663 , Samuel Butler, Hudibras :
  • Who having round begirt the palace, / (As once a moth they do the gallows,) / As members gave the sign about, / Set up their throats with hideous shout.
    (Part 1, Canto 2, Lines 532-535)

    References

    *OED 2nd edition 1989