Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to beclip
Participle: beclipped
Gerund: beclipping
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | beclip |
| you | beclip |
| he;she;it | beclips |
| we | beclip |
| you | beclip |
| they | beclip |
Perfect
| I | have beclipped |
| you | have beclipped |
| he;she;it | has beclipped |
| we | have beclipped |
| you | have beclipped |
| they | have beclipped |
Past
| I | beclipped |
| you | beclipped |
| he;she;it | beclipped |
| we | beclipped |
| you | beclipped |
| they | beclipped |
Pluperfect
| I | had beclipped |
| you | had beclipped |
| he;she;it | had beclipped |
| we | had beclipped |
| you | had beclipped |
| they | had beclipped |
Future
| I | will beclip |
| you | will beclip |
| he;she;it | will beclip |
| we | will beclip |
| you | will beclip |
| they | will beclip |
Future Perfect
| I | will have beclipped |
| you | will have beclipped |
| he;she;it | will have beclipped |
| we | will have beclipped |
| you | will have beclipped |
| they | will have beclipped |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | beclip |
| you | beclip |
| he;she;it | beclip |
| we | beclip |
| you | beclip |
| they | beclip |
Perfect
| I | have beclipped |
| you | have beclipped |
| he;she;it | have beclipped |
| we | have beclipped |
| you | have beclipped |
| they | have beclipped |
Imperfect
| I | beclipped |
| you | beclipped |
| he;she;it | beclipped |
| we | beclipped |
| you | beclipped |
| they | beclipped |
Pluperfect
| I | had beclipped |
| you | had beclipped |
| he;she;it | had beclipped |
| we | had beclipped |
| you | had beclipped |
| they | had beclipped |
Conditional
Present
| I | would beclip |
| you | would beclip |
| he;she;it | would beclip |
| we | would beclip |
| you | would beclip |
| they | would beclip |
Perfect
| I | would have beclipped |
| you | would have beclipped |
| he;she;it | would have beclipped |
| we | would have beclipped |
| you | would have beclipped |
| they | would have beclipped |
Imperative
| you | beclip |
| we | Let's beclip |
| you | beclip |
Verbs conjugated like 'beclip'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'beclip'
beclap,
reclip,
beclam,
beclaw,
beclog,
bedip,
bedrip,
begrip,
belap,
belie,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to clasp in the arms with affection
- accoll, amplect, clip, coll, complect, comply, cwtch, embrace, enfold, enhalse, fall on someone's neck, fathom, glomp, halse, hug, infold, oxter, press, squeeze, umbeclap
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English beclippen, from Old English beclyppan (“to clip, clasp, embrace, enfold”), from Proto-Germanic *bi- (“be-”) + *klumpijaną (“to hold, clench”), from Proto-Indo-European *glemb-, *glembʰ- (“to hold, clench”), equivalent to be- + clip. Compare also Middle English umbeclippen (“to embrace”). See also umbeclip. See: Old English '
beclyppan'.
Sample Sentences
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At the coming of Jupiter many Tears were wept for joy, by Dame Cibel and Vesc. Cibel kist and beclipt oftentimes her Son; [1702, Raoul Lefèvre, The Destruction of Troy:]
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Which thing was told to the king by the same Hulin, and anon the king had pity on the poor man, and disdained not, but took him on his shoulders and bare him, whom the cripple beclipped with his foul and scabby hands and arms, and so, n the bearing, his sinews loosed and were reached out. [1900, Jacobus (de Voragine) William Caxton, Frederick Startridge Ellis, The Golden Legend: Or, Lives of the Saints - Volume 4, page 15:]
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After the kiss in the Mass, when the priest consecrates, there forget all the world and there be altogether out of the body; there in sparkling love beclip our beloved that into our breast's bower is alighted out of heaven, and hold him fast till he hath granted all that ever you will. [1927, David Knowles, The English Mystics, page 71:]