bethrust

bethrust

English

Etymology

From be- (“at, over, across”) +‎ thrust.

Verb

bethrust (third-person singular simple present bethrusts, present participle bethrusting, simple past and past participle bethrusted or bethrust)

1. (transitive, archaic) To thrust forth or about; thrust forward, toward, or out.
   • 1864, Mrs. J. R. Beckwith, The Winthrops:

     The early twilight descended in mercy over the half-crazed inmates of the household, who offered up their truest thanksgiving when Mrs. Duncan and her brood stowed themselves once more into the cutter of which it might have been wondered how it contrived to hold them all, and with a parting hoot from some slily bethrust member of the young fraternity, they started homeward.

   • 1881, Biographical and Miscellaneous Sonnets - Page 77:

     Bright, radiant, glad eyed, clean souled seraphim, Whose genius would at once from heaven bethrust, Dared they to purity unfaithful prove.

Anagrams

• bursteth