† belavev.
Obsolete.
transitive. To lave about, wash all over; to lave its banks as a river.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > action of flushing or swilling > flush or swill [verb (transitive)] > about or all over
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a1300 Old Eng. Misc. 140 Þu stode Naked and bylaued myd blode.
1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 92 Mee in Thy Blood be-lave.
a1618 J. Sylvester tr. Bethulians Rescue in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 1002 The happy Plains great Phasis Streams belave.
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belave
belave v. 
/biˈleɪv/
Brit. /bᵻˈleɪv/
, /bᵻˈleɪv/U.S. /bəˈleɪv/
, /bəˈleɪv//biˈleɪv/Π
1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 92 Mee in Thy Blood be-lave.
a1618 J. Sylvester tr. Bethulians Rescue in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 1002 The happy Plains great Phasis Streams belave.
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