benettle

English

Etymology

be- +‎ nettle

Verb

benettle (third-person singular simple present benettles, present participle benettling, simple past and past participle benettled)

To nettle:
1. To whip or sting with nettles.
  - 1968, Evelyn Berckman, The Heir of Starvelings, page 56:
    As they retraced their benettled footsteps, Mr Truscott's silent rage was such as to obscure even […]
  - 2000, Robert J. Hasenfratz, Ancrene wisse, page 404:
    Next to the body let no one gird (or, belt) herself with any kind of belt, except by a confessor's permission, or [let anyone] wear any iron, or haircloth, or hedgehog's skins, or beat herself with them, or with a leaded scourge (i.e., a lead-tipped scourge), with holly or with briars, or bloody herself without [her] confessor's permission, in no place benettle herself (i.e., whip herself with nettles), or beat [herself] in front, or cut any slashes, or take at one time [any bodily] punishments too severe in order to quench temptations.
2. (obsolete) To vex or provoke.
  - 1814, David Hitchcock, The Social Monitor, page 43:
    Where men of ordinary skill, May have the fortune, if they will, To keep in circumstances middling By nothing in the world but piddling ; Hence, with their fancies thus benettled, The future course of life is settled :
  - 1877, Detroit Amateur, The Croaker, page 22:
    It seems for this you felt yourself benettled ; You grieve that all as bad has not been settled.
  - 1894, Proceedings of the Annual Conclave of the Grand Commandery Knights Templar of the State of Mississippi, page 75:
    Sir Geore ^[sic] benettles the Grand Commander of Iowa for saying that "as Templars we are not judged by any standard or creed " And behold we humbly ask, "Is not Grand Commander correct?

单词	benettle
释义	benettle English Etymology be- +‎ nettle Verb benettle (third-person singular simple present benettles, present participle benettling, simple past and past participle benettled) To nettle: To whip or sting with nettles. 1968, Evelyn Berckman, The Heir of Starvelings, page 56: As they retraced their benettled footsteps, Mr Truscott's silent rage was such as to obscure even […] 2000, Robert J. Hasenfratz, Ancrene wisse, page 404: Next to the body let no one gird (or, belt) herself with any kind of belt, except by a confessor's permission, or [let anyone] wear any iron, or haircloth, or hedgehog's skins, or beat herself with them, or with a leaded scourge (i.e., a lead-tipped scourge), with holly or with briars, or bloody herself without [her] confessor's permission, in no place benettle herself (i.e., whip herself with nettles), or beat [herself] in front, or cut any slashes, or take at one time [any bodily] punishments too severe in order to quench temptations. (obsolete) To vex or provoke. 1814, David Hitchcock, The Social Monitor, page 43: Where men of ordinary skill, May have the fortune, if they will, To keep in circumstances middling By nothing in the world but piddling ; Hence, with their fancies thus benettled, The future course of life is settled : 1877, Detroit Amateur, The Croaker, page 22: It seems for this you felt yourself benettled ; You grieve that all as bad has not been settled. 1894, Proceedings of the Annual Conclave of the Grand Commandery Knights Templar of the State of Mississippi, page 75: Sir Geore ^[sic] benettles the Grand Commander of Iowa for saying that "as Templars we are not judged by any standard or creed " And behold we humbly ask, "Is not Grand Commander correct?
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