Bewater vs Rewater - What's the difference?
bewater | rewater |
To water about or all over; cover, douse, or fill with water; make wet; water; hydrate.
*1871 , Robert South, Sermons preached upon several occasions :
*1906 , Country life:
*1912 , William Morris, May Morris, The Collected Works of William Morris :
As verbs the difference between bewater and rewater
is that bewater is to water about or all over; cover, douse, or fill with water; make wet; water; hydrate while rewater is to water again.bewater
English
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(en verb)- A piece of brass may as easily melt, or a flint bewater itself, as the heart of man, by any innate power of its own, resolve itself into a penitential humiliation.
- For ten days my wife and I fed this mile, every two hours by day, and three by night, wi'h drops of cow's milk, sugared and bewatered .
- [...] unto my chamber aloft now will I go And lie on the bed that knoweth the wailing of my woe, With many a tear bewatered since the day Odysseus fared With Atreus' sons to Ilios.