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bewail, v.|bɪˈweɪl|
Forms: 4 bi-, byweile(n, -weylen, -wayle, bywaile, 4–5 biwaill, -wayle, bywaylen, 4–6 bewayll, 6–7 bewaile, -wayle, 6– bewail.
[f. be- 4 + wail.]
1. trans. To wail over, to utter wailings or cries of sorrow over, esp. over the dead. Also refl.
c1300K. Alis. 4395 Ded he is of sadel y-falle; Perciens hit byweileth alle. 1475Caxton Jason 18 How they bewaylled eche other. 1611Bible Jer. iv. 31 The daughter of Zion that bewaileth herself. 1822B. Cornwall Flood Thess. i. 364 Pyrrha, sheltered in a cave, bewail'd Her child which perished.
2. To express great sorrow for; to lament loudly, mourn. Also refl.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iv. 1223 Bywaylynge ay the day that they were borne. 1388Wyclif 2 Cor. xii. 21 Y biweile many of hem, that bifor synneden. 1549Bk. Com. Prayer, Commun. Serv., We knowledge and bewaile our manifold sinnes and wickednes. 1649Milton Eikon. Wks. 1738 I. 395 He bewails his want of the Militia. 1758Johnson Idler No. 3 ⁋8 These miseries I have often felt and often bewailed. 1880Dixon Windsor III. xiv. 128 Other bards bewailed the dead poet.
b. To mourn or lament the want of.
1795Southey Joan of Arc vi. 437 Then wild with joy speeds on to taste the wave So long bewail'd.
3. intr. To utter lamentations; to lament, mourn.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. i. vi. 26 For þe same þing songe þou..byweyledest and byweptest. 1611J. Field in Coryat Crudities Pref. Verses, Tom-Piper is gone out and mirth bewailes. 1820Southey Wesley II. 38 Instead of bewailing for him and for herself.
b. with cognate object; see bewailed.
¶ In the following passage, the use of bewaile is either very forced (? suggested by the consequences of a wreck), or it is a mere error. The suggestion that it was meant for a derivative of wale ‘to choose’ is worthless.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. vi. 1 As when a ship..An hidden rocke escaped hath unwares, That lay in waite her wrack for to bewaile. |