begrip

Definition

To grip around or about; get a grip on; grasp.

Etymology

From be- + grip. Compare begripe.

Example Sentences

• "Then the girdled hilt seiz'd he, the Wolf of the Scyldings, The rough and the sword-grim, and drew forth the ring-sword, Naught weening of life, and wrathful he smote then So that there on her halse the hard edge begripped, [...]"
• "They try to begrip by conceptions that which no conception can grasp save when conception is full-open with consciousness, and identical with it."
• "Then parted Frowin and Garnum, and, hands begripped, they solemnly repeated the foster-brother oath: "Thy kin will I protect; thy honor will I guard. Parted or together, when thou diest then will I die also: [...]"