bejade
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[edit]bejade (third-person singular simple present bejades, present participle bejading, simple past and past participle bejaded)
- (transitive) To tire.
- 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 164:
- but if you have no mercy upon them, yet ſpare your ſelfe, leſt you bejade the good Galloway, your owne opiniaſter Wit,