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▪ I. † belie, v.1 Obs.|bɪˈlaɪ|
Forms: 1 belicᵹan, 2–3 biliggen, 5 ? belye. pa. tense 1 belæᵹ, 2–3 bilæi, -lai, 3–5 bi-, by-, be-lay(e. pa. pple. 1 beleᵹen, 3–4 bi-, by-, beleyn, -layn(e, -lay(e, 7 beely'd.
[OE. bi-, be-licᵹan = OHG. biligan, hilikan, MHG. biligen, Ger. beliegen, f. bi-, be- about + ligan, in OE. licᵹan to lie.]
1. trans. To lie around, encompass.
a1000Cædmon's Gen. (Grein) 229 Sio ea Ethiopia land beliᵹeð uton. 1430Lydg. Chron. Troy iii. xxiv, Dimmed with skyes foule..with tempest all be-layne. 1627May Lucan iii. (1631) 219 From Pholoe Beely'd with Centaures.
2. spec. To lie with an army round, to beleaguer.
a1000ælfric Joshua vii. 9 Hi belicᵹaþ us mid fyrde. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 51 Þe king..bilai þe burh ierusalem. c1330Arth. & Merl. 5378 He was belayn in that cite. c1380Sir Ferumb. 4483 Now haþ þe A[meral] by-leyn hem þer.
3. To lie with (carnally).
c1325Cœur de L. 1119 Hys daughtyr that was bylayn. c1460Towneley Myst. 328, I slew my fader, and syn bylay my moder.
4. intr. To lie near; to pertain or belong to; impers. it is pertinent or proper.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 15 Þe six werkes of þesternesse þe biliȝe to nihte. Ibid. 61 Þe habbeð þo sinnes don þe bi⁓liggeð to here shrifte. 1387Trevisa Higden (1865) I. 147 Þerto [to Cappadocia] be-lyeþ Cilicia. a1400Old Usages Winchester in T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 350 Also twey coroners by-lyth that ther be in Wynchestre. 1522World & Child in Hazl. Dodsl. I. 258 Covet..no good that him be-lith.
▪ II. belie, v.2|bɪˈlaɪ|
Forms: 1 beléoᵹan, 2–3 -leoȝen, 4–7 belye, 6–8 -ly, 6 -belie. pa. tense 1 beléaᵹ, 6– belied. pa. pple. 1 beloᵹen, 3–4 belowen, 6– belied.
[OE. beléoᵹan = OFris. biliuga, OHG. biliugan to lie about, f. bi-, be- + OE. léoᵹan = Gothic liugan to lie, tell lies. Originally, like the simple lie, a strong vb., but rare exc. in present in ME.]
Always trans.
†1. To deceive by lying. Obs.
a1000Gregory's Dial. (Bosw.) i. 14 Beloᵹen beon, falli.
2. To tell lies about; esp. to calumniate by false statements.
a1225Ancr. R. 68 Þe treowe is misleued, and te sakelease ofte bilowen, uor wone of witnesse. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. ii. 22 She hath..ylakked my lemman, and bilowen hire to lordes. Ibid. v. 414, I haue leuere..lesynges to laughe at and belye my neighbore. 1481Caxton Reynard (Arb.) 96 He belyeth me falsely. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 490 Wherein you doe unhonestlye slaunder him and belye him, without cause. 1667Pepys Diary (1879) IV. 396 Saying that he had belied him to our King. 1762Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) IV. lxiv. 762 It was rendered criminal to belie the subjects of the king. 1876Holland Sev. Oaks xv. 213, I think she is shamefully belied.
†b. to belie the truth. Obs.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. x. 22 Þei lede lordes with lesynges and bilyeth treuthe. 1635Austin Medit. 123 The Judge of Heaven is judg'd; the Truth be-lide.
†3. To assert or allege falsely, or with a lie.
1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 123 He belyed hymselfe to be the Prophet of God. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 110 b, Whiche..is most falsely belyed upon him. 1659Milton Hirelings Wks. 1738 I. 570 To belye divine Authority, to make the name of Christ accessory to Violence.
4. To give a false representation or account of, to misrepresent; to present in a false character.
1601Cornwallyes Ess. xxii, It is a strange thing how men bely themselves: every one speaks well, and meanes noughtily. 1649Milton Eikon. 143 He a declar'd Papist, If his own letter to the Pope belye him not. 1709Lady M. W. Montague Lett. lxiv. II. 106, I know not..how much my face may belie my heart. 1814Byron Lara i. xxi, His brow belied him if his soul was sad. 1851Kingsley Yeast xv. You are an Englishman..unless your physiognomy belies you.
absol.1871R. Ellis Catullus x. 16 They grow quantities, if report belies not.
†b. To disguise (a person or thing) so as to make it appear something else. Obs.
1711Pope Temple F. 154 His hornéd head bely'd the Libian God. a1725― Odyss. iv. 618 A boar's obscener shape the god belies. 1810Cromek Nithsd. & Galloway Song App. (1880) 225 To belie the form of God in the unholy semblance of cats.
†c. To assume falsely the character of; to counterfeit. Obs. rare.
a1700Dryden (J.) Durst, with horses hoofs that beat the ground, And martial brass, belie the thunder's sound.
†5. To give the lie to, call false, contradict as a lie or a liar; to reject as false, deny the truth of.
1577Holinshed Chron. III. 1158/1 This that I haue said, I will stand vnto, for I will neuer beelie my selfe. 1611Bible Jer. v. 12 They haue belyed the Lord, and said; It is not he. 1626T. H. tr. Caussin's Holy Crt. 21, I will not be-lye the law of my Maister. 1649Alcoran 45 If they bely thee, know, they belyed the Prophets that were before thee.
6. To call (a thing) false practically, to treat it as false by speaking or acting at variance with it; to be false or faithless to.
1698Norris Pract. Disc. IV. 27 If a Man..does not appear to bely his Discourse by his Practice. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 356 Who in his last acts does not wish to belye the tenour of his life. 1810Shelley Q. Mab 22 Those who dare belie Their human nature. 1868G. Duff Pol. Surv. 196 Her life as a nation will not belie her great gifts as a country. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) II. viii. 207 But..he grossly belied his faith.
7. To show to be false, prove false or mistaken; to falsify (expectations, etc.).
1685tr. Gracian's Courtier's Orac. 7 It is the victory of an able man to correct, or at least bely the censure. 1781Cowper Retirem. 714 Novels..Belie their name, and offer nothing new. 1833H. Martineau Tale of Tyne iii. 53 There was..a quaver of the voice which belied what he said. 1857Buckle Civilis. vi. 296 The subsequent actions of Arthur did not belie his supernatural origin.
†8. ? To fill with lies. Obs. rare.
1611Shakes. Cymb. iii. iv. 38 'Tis Slander..whose breath Rides on the posting windes, and doth belye All corners of the World. |