ybetadj.
amended; improved; kindled.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > improvement > [adjective] > improved
ybetc1000
amendeda1382
bettered?1533
mended1548
well-improveda1643
improved1648
meliorated1657
enriched1691
ameliorated1788
stepped1933
uprated1967
c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 116 Ðonne bið hit [the wound] sona gebet.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. iv. 93 Bettere is þat bote bale adoun brynge, Þan bale be ybette & bote neuere þe bettere.
a1400 Octouian 235 Anoon a fyer ther was y-beet [rhyme y-set].
?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) Prol. l. 14 in Shorter Poems (1967) 8 Vapours hote right fresche and wele ybet.
1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades ii. 19 And to his side a sworde he girt, with golden nayles ybet.
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