begnawn

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begnawn

  1. (obsolete) past participle of begnaw
    • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
      begnawn with the bots
    • 1897, Maine Academy of Medicine and Science, Journal of medicine and science: Volume 4:
      They are as a class, dyspeptics, — begnawn by indigestion, — and they try a new kind of patent medicine every week []
    • 1896, Charles Whitehead, Richard Savage, a romance of real life:
      penitent or fear-begnawn rogues