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▪ I. behave, v.|bɪˈheɪv|
Pa. tense behaved (in 6 behad.)
[Formed, app. in 15th c., from be- 2 + have v., in order to express a qualified sense of have, particularly in the reflexive ‘to have or bear oneself (in a specified way),’ which answers exactly to mod.G. sich behaben. (OE. had behabban = OHG. bihabên, f. be- about + habban to hold, have, in senses ‘encompass, contain, detain’; but there was no historical connexion between that and the 15th c. behave.)]
1. refl. To bear, comport, or conduct oneself; to act:
a. with adv. or qualifying phrase, expressing the manner. (Formerly a dignified expression, applied e.g. to the bearing, deportment, and public conduct of persons of distinction; in 17–18th c. commonly used of the way in which soldiers acquit themselves in battle; but now chiefly expressing observance of propriety in personal conduct, and usually as in b. The intr. sense 3, preserves the earlier use.)
c1440Bone Flor. 1567 To lerne hur to behave hur among men. 1474Caxton Chesse 74 Ony man that wylle truly behaue hym self. a1520Myrr. Our Ladye 241 Yet in all her trybulacions she behad her so paciently. 1533Bellenden Livy i. (1822) 15 The mair princely that he behad him in his dignite riall. 1611Bible 1 Chron. xix. 13 Let vs behaue our selues valiantly for our people. 1665Manley Grotius' Low-C. Warres 303 The Sea-men..would be ready to mutiny for their Pay, and threaten to behave themselves as Enemies. 1711Steele Spect. No. 2 ⁋4 He was some Years a Captain, and behaved himself with great Galantry in several Engagements. 1715in Lond. Gaz. No. 5390/2 The Clans behave themselves with great Insolence. 1733Pendarves in Swift's Lett. (1768) IV. 39 Let me know if I have behaved myself right. 1823Scott F.M. Perth III. 303 The Chief had behaved himself with the most determined courage.
b. Without qualification: To conduct oneself well, or (in modern use) with propriety. Now chiefly said of children or young people, who might possibly misbehave themselves.
1691Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) II. 209 The French King hath given large gratuities to Mr. Vauban and other officers that behaved themselves before Mons. Mod. colloq. If you cannot behave yourself, you had better stay at home. Mod. Sc. maxim, ‘Behave yourself before folk.’
c. transf. of things: To comport itself in any relation, to act (towards other things).
1541R. Copland Galyen's Terap. 2 B j b, Euery thyng that behaueth it wel and is accordyng to nature. 1650Fuller Pisgah i. xi. 36 If these three Provinces be..compared together, they behave themselves as followeth. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 54 How the Worlds vastness behaves it self towards Gods Immensity.
†2. trans. To handle, manage, wield, conduct, regulate (in some specified way). Obs.
1526Skelton Magnyf. 1366 Without crafte nothynge is well behavyd. 1557North Gueuara's Dial. Pr. (1585) 277 These pinchpenies do behave their persons so evil, etc. 1596Spenser F.Q. ii. iii. 40 Who his limbs with labours and his mind Behaues with cares, cannot so easie mis. 1607Shakes. Timon iii. v. 22 With such sober and vnnoted passion He did behaue [printed behooue] his anger.
3. intr.: in same senses as 1 a and b (which it now to a great extent replaces).
1719Young Revenge i. i, As you behave, Your father's kindness stabs me to the heart. 1812Ld. Cathcart in Examiner 12 Oct. 649/1 Those who were engaged behaved well. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 678 He behaved like a man of sense and spirit. 1866Kingsley Herew. vii. 129 She behaved not over wisely or well. 1872Ruskin Eagle's Nest §161 You must very..thoroughly know how to behave.
b. to behave towards or behave to: to conduct oneself in regard to, act, deal with, treat (in any way).
1754Chatham Lett. Nephew iv. 24 As to your manner of behaving towards these unhappy young gentlemen. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 51 Did you ever behave ill to your father or your mother? Mod. They have behaved very handsomely to you.
c. transf. of things.
1854Scoffern in Orr's Circ. Sc. Chem. 463 It combines violently with water, behaving like the bichloride of tin. 1871B. Stewart Heat §38 Glass will also behave in a very different manner according as it is annealed or unannealed.
▪ II. † beˈhave, n. Obs.
[f. prec.]
= behaviour.
1615Chapman Odyss. xxii. 545 Only there were twelve that gave Themselves to impudence and light behave. |