bearen
English
Etymology
From Middle English beren, equivalent to bear + -en.
Verb
bearen
- (obsolete) plural simple present form of bear
- 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender
- They looken big as Bulls that been bate,
- And bearen the Crag so stiff and so state,
- 1647, Henry More, The Sleep of the Soul
- But further yet the mind to satisfie
- That various apprehensions bearen down,
- 1714, Samuel Croxall, Another Original Canto of Spencer
- Succour they bring to all by Powre opprest;
- That happy Coast where ere they bearen Rule is blest.
- 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender
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